Asteriomyzostomum hercules
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Its body has no segments; it is shaped like a flat pancake with rows of wart-like legs.
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The real Asteriomyzostomum hercules
- Scientific name
- Asteriomyzostomum hercules
- Japanese name
- カンムリヒトデスイクチムシ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Polychaeta
- Order
- Myzostomida
- Family
- Asteriomyzostomidae
- Genus
- Asteriomyzostomum
Where the name “Asteriomyzostomum hercules” comes from
The scientific name’s hercules refers to Heracles from Greek mythology.
鳥羽水族館Found in the Kumano Sea, it lives inside the stomach of a deep-sea sea star called the kanmuri-hitode.
Its body has no segments; it is shaped like a flat pancake with rows of wart-like legs.
How the Asteriomyzostomum hercules lives
It seems unable to survive for long outside the sea star’s stomach.
鳥羽水族館Basic data
- Range
- Kumano Sea
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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 — カンムリヒトデスイクチムシChecked: 2026-11-04
- 鳥羽水族館 — ヒトデスイクチムシ科 ３新種！Checked: 2026-11-09
- 鳥羽水族館 — ピンクのカンムリヒトデスイクチムシChecked: 2026-11-09
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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