Japanese mitten lobster
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The Japanese mitten lobster has widely spaced eyes.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Japanese mitten lobster
- Scientific name
- Parribacus japonicus
- Japanese name
- ゾウリエビ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Scyllaridae
- Genus
- Parribacus
How the Japanese mitten lobster lives
It becomes active at night. By day it hides in the shelter of rocks or clings to a rock and stays still. It lives on coral reefs and rocky reefs in shallow seas.
東京都公園協会 八丈ビジターセンター宇久井ビジターセンター沖縄美ら海水族館Basic data
- Range
- Boso Peninsula and southward, and Taiwan
Where the Japanese mitten lobster 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
- ゾウリエビ
- 简体中文
- 日本岩礁扇虾
- 繁體中文
- 日本岩礁扇蝦
- Português (Brasil)
- Lagosta-sapata-nipônica
- Italiano
- Magnosa giapponese
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 — ゾウリエビChecked: 2026-11-04
- 東京都公園協会 八丈ビジターセンター — ゾウリエビChecked: 2026-11-07
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — ゾウリエビChecked: 2026-11-07
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — ゾウリエビ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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