Sea toad
Amazing fact
The sea toad has a small, fishing-rod-like projection just above its mouth that lures prey.
葛西臨海水族園
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The sea toad has a small, fishing-rod-like projection just above its mouth that lures prey.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Sea toad
- Scientific name
- Chaunax abei
- Japanese name
- ミドリフサアンコウ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Lophiiformes
- Family
- Chaunacidae
- Genus
- Chaunax
An anglerfish relative that lives on sandy and muddy seafloors in deep water. It stays still and hardly moves at all.
Its eyes and big mouth face upward, so it can lie in wait for shrimp and small fish that come close and catch them in an instant.
It can also crawl along the seafloor using its pectoral fins, and sometimes it swallows water and puffs up.
Basic data
- Size
- Total length: 30 cm
- Diet
- Shrimp, small fish, and other foods
- Range
- Southern Japan to the East China Sea, Korean Peninsula, and Taiwan
Where the Sea toad 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
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 葛西臨海水族園 — ミドリフサアンコウChecked: 2026-11-03
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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