Maple leaf triton
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The maple leaf triton’s shell has lengthwise ribs made up of small bumps.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Maple leaf triton
- Scientific name
- Gyrineum perca
- Japanese name
- マツカワガイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Littorinimorpha
- Family
- Ranellidae
- Genus
- Gyrineum
A sea snail that lives in seas south of the Boso Peninsula and Yamaguchi Prefecture.
How the Maple leaf triton lives
It lives on rocky shores in the zone covered and uncovered by the tides.
中央研究院生物多樣性研究中心Basic data
- Range
- Boso Peninsula and south of Yamaguchi Prefecture
Where the Maple leaf triton 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
- マツカワガイ
- 简体中文
- 翼法螺
- 繁體中文
- 翼法螺
- Русский
- Окуневый биплекс
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 — マツカワガイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 中央研究院生物多樣性研究中心 — 翼法螺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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