Owston's leather urchin
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Owston's leather urchin can move quickly using its tube feet.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Owston's leather urchin
- Scientific name
- Araeosoma owstoni
- Japanese name
- オーストンフクロウニ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Echinoidea
- Order
- Echinothurioida
- Family
- Echinothuriidae
- Genus
- Araeosoma
It lives from Sagami Bay to the Nansei Islands, in fairly shallow water for a leather urchin.
How the Owston's leather urchin lives
It is an urchin that lives in the deep sea.
沖縄美ら海水族館Basic data
- Range
- Sagami Bay to the Nansei Islands
Where the Owston's leather urchin 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
- オーストンフクロウニ
- 简体中文
- 软海胆
- 繁體中文
- 軟海膽
- 한국어
- 오스톤얇은각성게
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 — オーストンフクロウニChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — オーストンフクロウニ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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