Golden Bristle Worm
Amazing fact
The golden bristle worm has a row of dark purple spots down the middle of its back.
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The golden bristle worm has a row of dark purple spots down the middle of its back.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Golden Bristle Worm
- Scientific name
- Chloeia flava
- Japanese name
- ウミケムシ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Polychaeta
- Order
- Eunicida
- Family
- Amphinomidae
- Genus
- Chloeia
By day it often hides in the sand on the sea floor, and at night it swims near the surface.
The bristles on the sides of its body are venomous, and they can sting you if you touch it with bare hands.
How the Golden Bristle Worm lives
It is often found under stones.
静岡県水産・海洋技術研究所 伊豆分場Basic data
- Range
- South of central Honshu and the Indo-West Pacific
Where the Golden Bristle Worm 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
- ウミケムシ
- 简体中文
- 黄斑海毛虫
- 繁體中文
- 黃斑海毛蟲
- 한국어
- 노란풀양목갯지렁이
- Français
- Ver de feu à ocelles
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Ulat bulu laut
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 — ウミケムシChecked: 2026-11-04
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — ウミケムシChecked: 2026-11-07
- 静岡県水産・海洋技術研究所 伊豆分場 — ウミケムシ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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