Chorilia japonica
Amazing fact
The Kotsuno crab sometimes has sponges and other organisms attached to its body.
アクアマリンふくしま
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The Kotsuno crab sometimes has sponges and other organisms attached to its body.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Chorilia japonica
- Scientific name
- Chorilia japonica
- Japanese name
- コツノガニ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Epialtidae
- Genus
- Chorilia
A small crab that lives in the deep sea from the Shimokita Peninsula to Sagami Bay and the Kumano Sea.
It is known for its rostrum, the horn-like spikes that stick out from the front of its head.
How the Chorilia japonica lives
It lives on seabeds of sand, muddy sand or shell sand.
アクアマリンふくしまBasic data
- Range
- From the Shimokita Peninsula to Sagami Bay, and the Kumano Sea
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
- コツノガニ
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 — コツノガニChecked: 2026-11-04
- アクアマリンふくしま — コツノガニ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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