Snake sea cucumber
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Sand eaten by a snake sea cucumber comes out cleaner than before.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Snake sea cucumber
- Scientific name
- Synapta maculata
- Japanese name
- オオイカリナマコ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Holothuroidea
- Order
- Apodida
- Family
- Synaptidae
- Genus
- Synapta
It lives in the Nansei Islands south of Yoron and in tropical waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Snake sea cucumber lives
It often lives on sandy ground where seagrasses grow. It grabs and eats sand with feathery tentacles at the end of its body. It may also hide among pebbles.
沖縄美ら海水族館東京動物園協会（葛西臨海水族園）海洋委員會海洋保育署Basic data
- Size
- 3 m
- Range
- Nansei Islands south of Yoron Island, Indian Ocean, and tropical Pacific
Where the Snake sea cucumber 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
- オオイカリナマコ
- 简体中文
- 斑锚参
- 繁體中文
- 斑錨參
- Français
- Synapte maculée
- Deutsch
- Gefleckte Wurmseegurke
- Italiano
- Oloturia serpente indo-pacifica
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Teripang ular
- Русский
- Пятнистая синапта
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 — オオイカリナマコChecked: 2026-11-04
- 東京動物園協会（葛西臨海水族園） — うねうね動く掃除屋さん「オオイカリナマコ」Checked: 2026-11-07
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — オオイカリナマコChecked: 2026-11-07
- 海洋委員會海洋保育署 — 斑錨參-臺灣百種海洋動物圖鑑IIChecked: 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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