Mandarina mandarina
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The Katamaimai land snail lives in woodland in wetlands.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Mandarina mandarina
- Scientific name
- Mandarina mandarina
- Japanese name
- カタマイマイ
- Group
- Tiny animals
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Stylommatophora
- Family
- Camaenidae
- Genus
- Mandarina
A land snail that lives in the Chichijima island group of the Ogasawara Islands and nowhere else.
Snails in this group are fairly big with hard shells, and when grown up, the edge of the shell curls outward.
How the Mandarina mandarina lives
It feeds on plants and other food.
井の頭自然文化園Basic data
- Size
- Shell size: about 21 mm, about 28 mm
- Lifespan
- about 5–6 years
- Diet
- Plants and other foods
- Range
- Chichijima Islands, Ogasawara Islands
- Conservation status in Japan
- Critically Endangered or Endangered (CR+EN)Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Red List 2020
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
- カタマイマイ
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 井の頭自然文化園 — カタマイマイChecked: 2026-11-03
- Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Red List 2020Checked: 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.
The conservation status in Japan is the category in the Red Lists of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, which assess the risk of extinction for wild animals in Japan.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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Places that keep or show the Mandarina mandarina
Zoos, aquariums and other places whose official websites say they keep or show this animal.
Displays can change with the animals’ health and the seasons. Check each facility’s official website before you go.
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