Granular spindle
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
It lives in the seas south of Sagami Bay.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Granular spindle
- Scientific name
- Granulifusus niponicus
- Japanese name
- アラレナガニシ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Neogastropoda
- Family
- Fasciolariidae
- Genus
- Granulifusus
How the Granular spindle lives
It lives in the deep waters of the Kumano Sea. It has been observed stretching its body out. It has been observed twisting its body and making movements that look like cleaning its shell.
鳥羽水族館Basic data
- Range
- Sagami Bay and southward
Where the Granular spindle has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
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Names around the world
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 — アラレナガニシChecked: 2026-11-04
- 鳥羽水族館 — それは「手」なのか？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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