๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the bulb tentacle sea anemone live?

Entacmaea quadricolor has 2,895 records in 59 countries and territories, from 1892 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

bulb tentacle sea anemone
bulb tentacle sea anemone โ€” Photo: Nhobgood Nick Hobgood ยท CC BY-SA 3.0 ยท Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaCnidariaAnthozoaActiniariaActiniidaeEntacmaea

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18922026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Australia 430
Norfolk Island 414
Indonesia 328
Egypt 315
New Caledonia 253
Hong Kong 206
Philippines 132
Fiji 100
Japan 94
Maldives 64
Taiwan 59
Marshall Islands 40
Solomon Islands 35
Guam 34
Malaysia 34
Tanzania 32
Papua New Guinea 28
Saudi Arabia 26
Thailand 21
Israel 20
Oman 19
Vanuatu 18
South Korea 17
Singapore 16
Madagascar 11
Palau 11
American Samoa 10
China 10
South Africa 10
India 9
Kenya 9
Vietnam 8
United Arab Emirates 7
Jordan 7
Northern Mariana Islands 7
Micronesia 6
Mauritius 6
Seychelles 5
Kiribati 4
Myanmar 4

Showing the top 40 of 59 places.

Related animals

Others in the family Actiniidae.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.