Winged argonaut
Amazing fact
The shell of Argonauta hians has rounded bumps where its ribs meet the ridge along its back.
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The shell is for caring for her eggs, and males have no shell.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Winged argonaut
- Scientific name
- Argonauta hians
- Japanese name
- タコブネ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Cephalopoda
- Order
- Octopoda
- Family
- Argonautidae
- Genus
- Argonauta
A relative of the octopus that lives in warm seas on both the Pacific and Sea of Japan sides of Japan.
How the Winged argonaut lives
It lives drifting in the open ocean.
中央研究院生物多樣性研究中心Basic data
- Range
- Warm waters on the Pacific and Sea of Japan sides of Japan
Where the Winged argonaut 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
- タコブネ
- 简体中文
- 锦葵船蛸
- 繁體中文
- 闊船蛸
- 한국어
- 집낙지
- Français
- Argonaute voilier brun
- Deutsch
- Geflügeltes Papierboot
- Português (Brasil)
- Argonauta-bicolor
- Italiano
- Argonauta alato
- العربية
- عنقريط يني
- Русский
- Коричневый аргонавт
- Türkçe
- Kahverengi Argonot
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 — タコブネChecked: 2026-11-04
- 中央研究院生物多樣性研究中心 — 闊船蛸Checked: 2026-11-09
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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