Latreillia valida
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THE REAL WORLD
The real Latreillia valida
- Scientific name
- Latreillia valida
- Japanese name
- サナダミズヒキガニ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Latreilliidae
- Genus
- Latreillia
It lives in the Sea of Japan south of Akita Prefecture and in the seas from Tokyo Bay to the Bungo Channel.
It is named after sanada-himo cord, because the red-and-white pattern on its legs looks like it.
How the Latreillia valida lives
In the Sea of Japan, it lives on sandy or sandy-muddy seabeds.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Basic data
- Range
- Sea of Japan south of Akita Prefecture, Tokyo Bay to Bungo Channel
Where the Latreillia valida 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
- 鳥羽水族館 — サナダミズヒキガニChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — サナダミズヒキガニChecked: 2026-11-07
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center — Latreillia validaChecked: 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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