Lauridromia dehaani
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THE REAL WORLD
The real Lauridromia dehaani
- Scientific name
- Lauridromia dehaani
- Japanese name
- カイカムリ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Dromiidae
- Genus
- Lauridromia
It lives in places such as Hakodate, Nagasaki and the seas from Tokyo to Cape Sata in Kagoshima, as well as around Hong Kong, Java and the Indian Ocean.
How the Lauridromia dehaani lives
During the larval stage called zoea, it lives drifting in the water. After repeated molts, it changes into a larval stage called megalopa. Around the megalopa stage, it shifts from drifting in the water to living on the bottom.
市立しものせき水族館 海響館Basic data
- Range
- Hakodate, Fukui and Sanin, Nagasaki, Tokyo to Cape Sata, Chu Chu Island, Hong Kong, Java, and Indian Ocean
Where the Lauridromia dehaani 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
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 — カイカムリChecked: 2026-11-04
- 市立しものせき水族館 海響館 — ちびカイカムリ成長記録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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