Parade-Float Sea Slug
Amazing fact
The parade-float sea slug is said to flash bluish-white around its body when disturbed.
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It is named hanadensha, "flower streetcar", because of its bright red and yellow bumps.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Parade-Float Sea Slug
- Scientific name
- Kalinga ornata
- Japanese name
- ハナデンシャ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Nudibranchia
- Family
- Polyceridae
- Genus
- Kalinga
It lives in the seas from India across the western and southern Pacific to Australia.
It is named hanadensha, "flower streetcar", because of its bright red and yellow bumps.
How the Parade-Float Sea Slug lives
It mainly lives in muddy places in warm seas. It also appears to drift through the water at times.
東京動物園協会Basic data
- Diet
- Brittle stars
- Range
- India, western to South Pacific Ocean, and Australia
Where the Parade-Float Sea Slug 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
- ハナデンシャ
- 简体中文
- 喀林加海牛
- 繁體中文
- 佩飾巢海麒麟
- Español
- Babosa de mar carroza
- Italiano
- Kalinginae
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 — ハナデンシャChecked: 2026-11-04
- 東京動物園協会 — 珍しいウミウシ、ハナデンシャ──2006/11/25Checked: 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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