Cinderella sea slug
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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The Cinderella sea slug has vivid yellow tentacles and gills.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Cinderella sea slug
- Scientific name
- Hypselodoris apolegma
- Japanese name
- シンデレラウミウシ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Nudibranchia
- Family
- Chromodorididae
- Genus
- Hypselodoris
Its body is reddish purple, and the edge of its mantle is bordered with a white band.
The inner side of the white band forms a net-like pattern, which tells it apart from the similar kaguyahime-umiushi.
Basic data
- Range
- The tropical western Pacific Ocean
Where the Cinderella sea slug 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
- シンデレラウミウシ
- 简体中文
- 紫海牛
- 繁體中文
- 鑲邊高澤海蛞蝓
- Français
- Doris ourlée
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 — シンデレラウミウシChecked: 2026-11-04
- 八丈植物公園・八丈ビジターセンター — シンデレラウミウシ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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