Cloudy catshark
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A cloudy catshark grows inside an egg with a see-through case.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Cloudy catshark
- Scientific name
- Scyliorhinus torazame
- Japanese name
- トラザメ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Chondrichthyes
- Order
- Carcharhiniformes
- Family
- Scyliorhinidae
- Genus
- Scyliorhinus
It lives around Japan from southern Hokkaido southward, and in the East China Sea, around Korea and the Philippines.
How the Cloudy catshark lives
It is a shark that lives on the seabed. It lays eggs throughout the year. Tendril-like threads at the ends of the egg wrap around seaweed or rocks to hold it in place.
名古屋港水族館沖縄美ら海水族館Basic data
- Range
- Japan south of southern Hokkaido, East China Sea, eastern Korean Peninsula, Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, and Philippines
Where the Cloudy catshark 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
- トラザメ
- 简体中文
- 虎纹猫鲨
- 繁體中文
- 虎紋貓鯊
- 한국어
- 두툽상어
- Deutsch
- Japanischer Katzenhai
- Português (Brasil)
- Tubarão-gato-nebuloso
- Italiano
- Gattuccio nebuloso
- Русский
- Японская кошачья акула
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 — トラザメChecked: 2026-11-04
- 名古屋港水族館 — 深海ギャラリー【トラザメ】Checked: 2026-11-07
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — トラザメ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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