Red basket star
Amazing fact
In the Kumano Sea, young individuals of Astroglymma sculptum have been found clinging to sea fans and sea pens.
鳥羽水族館
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
It catches small creatures such as shrimp in its spread arms and eats them.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Red basket star
- Scientific name
- Astroglymma sculptum
- Japanese name
- アカテヅルモヅル
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Ophiuroidea
- Order
- Euryalida
- Family
- Gorgonocephalidae
- Genus
- Astroglymma
How the Red basket star lives
Young individuals have been observed carrying captured food to their mouths with their arms.
鳥羽水族館Basic data
- Diet
- Shrimp and other small animals
- Range
- Indo-West Pacific
Where the Red basket star 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
- 日本語
- アカテヅルモヅル
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 — アカテヅルモヅルChecked: 2026-11-04
- 鳥羽水族館 — アカテヅルモヅルの幼体を展示しましたChecked: 2026-11-09
- 鳥羽水族館 — テヅルモヅルの腕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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