Pallid carrier shell
Amazing fact
The objects on a pallid carrier shell are thought to help camouflage it.
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The objects on a pallid carrier shell are thought to help camouflage it.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Pallid carrier shell
- Scientific name
- Xenophora pallidula
- Japanese name
- クマサカガイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Littorinimorpha
- Family
- Xenophoridae
- Genus
- Xenophora
It has the habit of sticking the empty shells of other dead shellfish and small stones onto its own shell.
How the Pallid carrier shell lives
It gets most of its nutrients by feeding on algae. It lives on the seabed near continental shelves.
Florida State UniversityBasic data
- Range
- Tohoku southward
Where the Pallid carrier shell 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
- クマサカガイ
- 简体中文
- 缀壳螺
- 繁體中文
- 綴殼螺
- Русский
- Бледная ксенофора
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 — クマサカガイChecked: 2026-11-04
- Florida State University — Pallid Carrier ShellChecked: 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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