Epizoanthus xenomorphoideus
Amazing fact
Epizoanthus xenomorphoideus builds a shell-like structure.
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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It grows by slowly dissolving the snail shell that a hermit crab carries.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Epizoanthus xenomorphoideus
- Scientific name
- Epizoanthus xenomorphoideus
- Japanese name
- ヤドカリスナギンチャク
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Hexacorallia
- Order
- Zoantharia
- Family
- Epizoanthidae
- Genus
- Epizoanthus
Basic data
- Range
- Suruga Bay, Kumano-nada, Okinawa, and elsewhere
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
- ヤドカリスナギンチャク
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 — ヤドカリスナギンチャクChecked: 2026-11-04
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — A molecular phylogeny of carcinoecium-forming Epizoanthus (Hexacorallia: Zoantharia) from the Western Pacific Ocean with descriptions of three new speciesChecked: 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.
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