Deep Sea Spider
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
Its head bears a proboscis shaped like a sake bottle (tokkuri).
THE REAL WORLD
The real Deep Sea Spider
- Scientific name
- Ascorhynchus japonicum
- Japanese name
- ヤマトトックリウミグモ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Pycnogonida
- Order
- Pantopoda
- Family
- Ascorhynchidae
- Genus
- Ascorhynchus
How the Deep Sea Spider lives
It points organs called palps forward when searching for food. It appears to spread its palps sideways just before piercing a sea anemone with its proboscis. It also grooms its whole body with organs called ovigers. The male carries a cluster of eggs on organs on its head.
鳥羽水族館鳥羽水族館葛西臨海水族園Basic data
- Range
- Hokkaido and Tohoku to southern Kyushu
Where the Deep Sea Spider 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
- ヤマトトックリウミグモ
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 — ヤマトトックリウミグモChecked: 2026-11-04
- 葛西臨海水族園 — レアな深海の生物、ヤマトトックリウミグモChecked: 2026-11-07
- 鳥羽水族館 — ヤマトトックリウミグモの鋏肢と触肢Checked: 2026-11-09
- 鳥羽水族館 — 宿主が死んでも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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