Japanese wonder shell
Amazing fact
The Japanese wonder shell was once thought to be an abnormally shaped example of another shell species.
海洋委員會海洋保育署
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The Japanese wonder shell was once thought to be an abnormally shaped example of another shell species.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Japanese wonder shell
- Scientific name
- Thatcheria mirabilis
- Japanese name
- チマキボラ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Neogastropoda
- Family
- Raphitomidae
- Genus
- Thatcheria
How the Japanese wonder shell lives
It lives on sandy, muddy bottoms in the deep sea.
海洋委員會海洋保育署Basic data
- Range
- South of Sagami Bay, the Philippines, and northern Australia
Where the Japanese wonder shell 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
- チマキボラ
- 简体中文
- 旋梯卷管螺
- 繁體中文
- 旋梯捲管螺
- Русский
- Удивительная татчерия
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 — チマキボラChecked: 2026-11-04
- 海洋委員會海洋保育署 — 旋梯螺-臺灣百種海洋動物圖鑑IIChecked: 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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