Eunoe issunboushi
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
The Issunboushi scale worm has scale-like structures on its body.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Eunoe issunboushi
- Scientific name
- Eunoe issunboushi
- Japanese name
- イッスンボウシウロコムシ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Polychaeta
- Order
- Phyllodocida
- Family
- Polynoidae
- Genus
- Eunoe
Where the name “Eunoe issunboushi” comes from
The word issunboushi in its Japanese and scientific names refers to the small male.
国立極地研究所It lives inside the shells of deep-water hermit crabs, together with the crabs.
How the Eunoe issunboushi lives
It lives inside the shells of carrier snails as well as hermit crabs.
国立極地研究所Basic data
- Range
- Suruga Bay and Kumano-nada
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
- イッスンボウシウロコムシ
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 — イッスンボウシウロコムシChecked: 2026-11-04
- 国立極地研究所 — 背中に乗った「一寸法師」矮雄（わいゆう）をもつウロコムシの新種を発見Checked: 2026-11-07
- 名古屋大学大学院理学研究科・理学部 — 新種の宝石箱！？多様でユニークなゴカイの生態とは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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