Laetmogone maculata
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Laetomogone maculata is a small-bodied sea cucumber.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Laetmogone maculata
- Scientific name
- Laetmogone maculata
- Japanese name
- ヒメカンテンナマコ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Holothuroidea
- Order
- Elasipodida
- Family
- Laetmogonidae
- Genus
- Laetmogone
A sea cucumber that lives on the deep-sea floor in places such as Sagami Bay, the Kumano Sea and the waters near Okinawa.
Basic data
- Size
- Body length: about 5 cm
- Range
- Sagami Bay, Kumano Sea, waters around Okinawa, and elsewhere
Where the Laetmogone maculata 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
- ヒメカンテンナマコ
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 — ヒメカンテンナマコChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — ヒメカンテンナマコ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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