Aesop Slipper Lobster
Amazing fact
The ridgeback slipper lobster hides in rock crevices and underwater caves during the day.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海
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The ridgeback slipper lobster hides in rock crevices and underwater caves during the day.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Aesop Slipper Lobster
- Scientific name
- Scyllarides haanii
- Japanese name
- コブセミエビ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Scyllaridae
- Genus
- Scyllarides
It lives along the Pacific side of Japan from Sagami Bay to Kyushu and Okinawa, and in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific.
Compared with the semi-ebi slipper lobster, the bumps on its head and chest area stand out more.
How the Aesop Slipper Lobster lives
It becomes active at night. It lives on rocky reefs.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Basic data
- Range
- Pacific coast from Sagami Bay to Kyushu and Okinawa, Indian Ocean, and western Pacific
Where the Aesop Slipper Lobster 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
- コブセミエビ
- 简体中文
- 韩氏拟扇虾
- 繁體中文
- 韓氏擬扇蝦
- 한국어
- 매미새우
- Français
- Cigale Ésope
- Português (Brasil)
- Lagosta-sapata-corcunda
- Italiano
- Magnosa gobba
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 — コブセミエビChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — コブセミエビ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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