Sea lily bryozoan
Amazing fact
The sea lily bryozoan lacks rings around its body opening, helping distinguish it from a similar species.
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The sea lily bryozoan lacks rings around its body opening, helping distinguish it from a similar species.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Sea lily bryozoan
- Scientific name
- Alcyonidium clavum
- Japanese name
- トリノアシのコケムシ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Gymnolaemata
- Order
- Ctenostomatida
- Family
- Alcyonidiidae
- Genus
- Alcyonidium
Basic data
- Range
- Suruga Bay
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
- トリノアシのコケムシ
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 — トリノアシのコケムシChecked: 2026-11-04
- Zoological Society of Japan — New Species of Lower-Shelf to Upper-Slope Ctenostome Bryozoans from Pacific Japan, with a Family Range ExtensionChecked: 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.
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