Strawberry conch
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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The strawberry conch pokes stalked eyes out of its shell.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Strawberry conch
- Scientific name
- Conomurex luhuanus
- Japanese name
- マガキガイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Littorinimorpha
- Family
- Strombidae
- Genus
- Conomurex
Its name comes from magaki, a rough fence woven from bamboo and brushwood, which it is said to resemble.
How the Strawberry conch lives
It lives in seagrass beds and on seabeds of sand and gravel. It probes its surroundings with a long mouth and eats algae on the sand surface. It moves along the seabed using its claw-shaped shell lid.
沖縄美ら海水族館新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Basic data
- Range
- The Boso Peninsula southward and the tropical Pacific Ocean
Where the Strawberry conch 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
- マガキガイ
- 简体中文
- 篱凤螺
- 繁體中文
- 紅嬌鳳凰螺
- 한국어
- 검은입술수정고둥
- Français
- Conche framboise
- Italiano
- Cono tigre di sabbia
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Siput jala
- Русский
- Красноустый стромбус
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 — マガキガイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — マガキガイChecked: 2026-11-07
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — マガキガイ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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