Parasitic isopod
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Akrophryxus acinaces is a parasitic isopod that was described as a new species.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Parasitic isopod
- Scientific name
- Akrophryxus acinaces
- Japanese name
- ツメナガカニノハナチョウチン
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Isopoda
- Family
- Dajidae
- Genus
- Akrophryxus
A parasitic isopod found in the Kumano Sea off Japan; it lives on the antennae of a crab called the enkou crab.
It belongs to the same group as the giant isopod, but its body is built so differently that you would hardly guess it.
Basic data
- Range
- Kumano Sea
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 — ツメナガカニノハナチョウチンChecked: 2026-11-04
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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