Marron
Amazing fact
Female marron carry eggs under their tails, where the eggs hatch.
Department of Water and Environmental Regulation, Western Australia
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Female marron carry eggs under their tails, where the eggs hatch.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Marron
- Scientific name
- Cherax cainii
- Japanese name
- マロン
- Group
- Freshwater animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Parastacidae
- Genus
- Cherax
How the Marron lives
It lives in rivers, lakes and ponds that hold water permanently. Large pieces of wood in the water provide shelter from birds and fish. It eats woody material, algae and small animals attached to it.
Department of Water and Environmental Regulation, Western AustraliaBasic data
- Range
- Southwestern Australia
Where the Marron 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
- マロン
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 — マロンChecked: 2026-11-04
- Department of Water and Environmental Regulation, Western Australia — Smooth marron - Cherax cainiiChecked: 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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