Plum Sea Anemone and Coral Sea Anemone of the Manazuru Peninsula Coast

This is a red sea anemone found in tide pools and shallow rocky shores, which contracts into a rounded shape resembling a pickled plum when the tide goes out. Along the coast of the Manazuru Peninsula in Kanagawa Prefecture it lives alongside the Sango sea anemone, and the shoreline is protected.

The bubble-tip anemone is a large sea anemone with reddish or greenish tentacles whose tips swell into bulbs, and it hosts anemonefish. Along the coast of the Manazuru Peninsula in Kanagawa it lives abundantly in tide pools together with the Umeboshi anemone, and the habitat is a Natural Monument.