Furcina osimae
Amazing fact
The Kinu sculpin uses an ascidian called mihaeruboya as an egg-laying site.
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The Kinu sculpin uses an ascidian called mihaeruboya as an egg-laying site.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Furcina osimae
- Scientific name
- Furcina osimae
- Japanese name
- キヌカジカ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Cottidae
- Genus
- Furcina
It lives along Japan's Sea of Japan coast from Hokkaido to northwestern Kyushu, its Pacific coast from Hokkaido to the Kii Channel, and off southern Korea.
It lives in the intertidal zone and on shallow rocky reefs, and it has a calm, easygoing nature.
It has skin flaps above its eyes, on the back of its head and along the line on its side, and a rounded snout.
Basic data
- Range
- Sea of Japan coast from southwestern Hokkaido to northwestern Kyushu, Pacific coast from western Hokkaido to Tokushima, and elsewhere
Where the Furcina osimae 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
- キヌカジカ
- 简体中文
- 日本宽叉杜父鱼
- 繁體中文
- 日本寬叉杜父魚
- 한국어
- 무늬횟대
- Русский
- Фурцина Осима
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 — キヌカジカChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟大学佐渡自然共生科学センター臨海実験所 — キヌカジカ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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