Epimenia babai
Amazing fact
The needle-like structures on Epimenia babai become hollow as they grow.
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When alive, its body is dark brown with many yellow, green or blue spots.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Epimenia babai
- Scientific name
- Epimenia babai
- Japanese name
- カセミミズ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Solenogastres
- Family
- Epimeniidae
- Genus
- Epimenia
Although its name contains mimizu (earthworm), it is a primitive mollusk. It lives in the seas from the Boso Peninsula to Kyushu.
How the Epimenia babai lives
Its embryos grow using the nutrients in the egg. As larvae, they swim freely in the water. As it develops, a foot bearing fine, hair-like cilia forms.
The University of Chicago PressBasic data
- Range
- Boso Peninsula to Kyushu
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 — カセミミズChecked: 2026-11-04
- The University of Chicago Press — Embryogenesis and Development of Epimenia babai (Mollusca Neomeniomorpha)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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