Sea apple
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
The sea apple catches food particles with its branching tentacles.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Sea apple
- Scientific name
- Pseudocolochirus violaceus
- Japanese name
- アデヤカキンコ（シーアップル）
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Holothuroidea
- Order
- Dendrochirotida
- Family
- Cucumariidae
- Genus
- Pseudocolochirus
How the Sea apple lives
It attaches to rocks with suction-cup feet. It eats fragments of algae and zooplankton.
NausicaáBasic data
- Range
- Western central Pacific
Where the Sea apple has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
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
- 简体中文
- 紫伪翼手参
- 繁體中文
- 紫偽翼手參
- Español
- Manzana de mar
- Português (Brasil)
- Pepino-do-mar-arco-íris
- Русский
- Трехцветный морской огурец
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 — アデヤカキンコ（シーアップル）Checked: 2026-11-04
- Nausicaá — Sea appleChecked: 2026-11-07
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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