Paguritta gracilipes
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
The Kanzashi hermit crab has a straight tail rather than a curled one.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Paguritta gracilipes
- Scientific name
- Paguritta gracilipes
- Japanese name
- カンザシヤドカリ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Paguridae
- Genus
- Paguritta
How the Paguritta gracilipes lives
It waves antennae covered in feathery projections to filter plankton from the water for food.
宇久井ビジターセンターBasic data
- Range
- From the Ryukyu Islands to Southeast Asia
Where the Paguritta gracilipes 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
- カンザシヤドカリ
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 — カンザシヤドカリChecked: 2026-11-04
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — カンザシヤドカリ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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