Blunt slipper lobster
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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The slipper lobster has antennae shaped like flat plates.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Blunt slipper lobster
- Scientific name
- Scyllarides squammosus
- Japanese name
- セミエビ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Scyllaridae
- Genus
- Scyllarides
How the Blunt slipper lobster lives
At night, it comes out from its rocky hiding places. It lives in shallow seas around coral reefs and rocky areas. During the day, it hides in cracks in rocks and underwater caves.
東京都島しょ農林水産総合センター新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Where the Blunt slipper lobster 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
- セミエビ
- 简体中文
- 鳞突拟扇虾
- 繁體中文
- 鱗突擬扇蝦
- Español
- Cigarra Nato
- Français
- Cigale Grenue
- Português (Brasil)
- Lagosta-sapata-escamosa
- Italiano
- Magnosa squamosa
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 — セミエビChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — セミエビChecked: 2026-11-07
- 東京都島しょ農林水産総合センター — 珍魚採集報告第134号 セミエビChecked: 2026-11-07
- 鴨川シーワールド — セミエビ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.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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