Spotted White Sea Slug
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The spotted white sea slug lays a spiral-shaped mass of eggs.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Spotted White Sea Slug
- Scientific name
- Chromodoris orientalis
- Japanese name
- シロウミウシ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Nudibranchia
- Family
- Chromodorididae
- Genus
- Chromodoris
It lives in Japanese seas, except around the Nansei Islands, and in the seas of Hong Kong and Taiwan.
How the Spotted White Sea Slug lives
In warm seasons, it is often seen in places where seaweed grows. It is also often seen in tide pools. It is considered likely to eat the rock-dwelling sponges called kuroiso-kaimen or namiiso-kaimen.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海竹野スノーケルセンター・ビジターセンターBasic data
- Range
- Japan excluding the Nansei Islands, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
Where the Spotted White 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
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 — シロウミウシChecked: 2026-11-04
- 竹野スノーケルセンター・ビジターセンター — シロウミウシChecked: 2026-11-07
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — シロウミウシ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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