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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
It looks like the kinsen-gani crab, which lives on sandy bottoms in shallow seas.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Mursia danigoi
- Scientific name
- Mursia danigoi
- Japanese name
- コツノキンセンモドキ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Calappidae
- Genus
- Mursia
It looks like the kinsen-gani crab, which lives on sandy bottoms in shallow seas.
Its relatives are known for spines on the sides of the shell, but in this species those spines are especially small.
Basic data
- Range
- From Fukui Prefecture to Tsushima, from Cape Inubo to Suruga Bay, Tosa Bay, the Kumano Sea, the Maldives, Fiji, and elsewhere
Where the Mursia danigoi 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
- コツノキンセンモドキ
- 简体中文
- 邓氏筐形蟹
- 繁體中文
- 鄧氏筐形蟹
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 — コツノキンセンモドキ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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