Gold ringer
Amazing fact
The gold ringer sometimes covers its shell with its mantle, a body membrane, while active.
天城町
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The gold ringer sometimes covers its shell with its mantle, a body membrane, while active.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Gold ringer
- Scientific name
- Monetaria annulus
- Japanese name
- ハナビラダカラ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Littorinimorpha
- Family
- Cypraeidae
- Genus
- Monetaria
How the Gold ringer lives
It lives in shallow tide pools and crevices in rocky reefs. It scrapes algae off rocks to eat. As it grows, the underside of its shell thickens and looks broader.
天城町Basic data
- Range
- Boso Peninsula and south of the Oga Peninsula
Where the Gold ringer 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
- ハナビラダカラ
- 简体中文
- 环纹货贝
- 繁體中文
- 環紋貨貝
- 한국어
- 노랑테두리개오지
- Français
- Porcelaine anneau d'or
- Português (Brasil)
- Búzio-de-anel-dourado
- Italiano
- Ciprea anello dorato
- Русский
- Каури золотое кольцо
- ไทย
- หอยเบี้ยแก้ว
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 — ハナビラダカラChecked: 2026-11-04
- 天城町 — ハナビラダカラ ( Gold ring cowrie, Ring cowrie, Gold ringer )Checked: 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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