Ophiomaza cacaotica
Amazing fact
Komachi brittle stars attach to a feather star's mouth side or the side opposite its mouth.
鳥羽水族館
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Komachi brittle stars attach to a feather star's mouth side or the side opposite its mouth.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Ophiomaza cacaotica
- Scientific name
- Ophiomaza cacaotica
- Japanese name
- コマチクモヒトデ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Ophiuroidea
- Order
- Amphilepidida
- Family
- Ophiotrichidae
- Genus
- Ophiomaza
A brittle star of seas south of the Boso Peninsula that lives together with feather stars.
Basic data
- Range
- South of the Boso Peninsula
Where the Ophiomaza cacaotica has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
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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 — コマチクモヒトデChecked: 2026-11-04
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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