Tempura sea anemone
Amazing fact
The end of Tempuractis rinkai opposite its mouth is rounded.
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
Its red tentacles poke out from inside an orange sponge.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Tempura sea anemone
- Scientific name
- Tempuractis rinkai
- Japanese name
- テンプライソギンチャク
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Hexacorallia
- Order
- Actiniaria
- Family
- Edwardsiidae
- Genus
- Tempuractis
A sea anemone that lives together with sponges, found in Kanagawa, Niigata and Mie.
How the Tempura sea anemone lives
It lives along rocky shores in temperate seas.
Vlaams Instituut voor de ZeeBasic data
- Range
- Kanagawa, Niigata, and Mie
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- テンプライソギンチャク
- Português (Brasil)
- Anêmona-de-Rinka
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — テンプライソギンチャクChecked: 2026-11-04
- Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee — First detailed record of symbiosis between a sea anemone and homoscleromorph sponge, with a description of Tempuractis rinkai gen. et sp. nov. (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actiniaria: Edwardsiidae)Checked: 2026-11-09
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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