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Sea Angels Found Outside Natural Habitat in Miyagi Prefecture
The clione, which are classified as mollusks and are also known as sea angels, have been on display at Marinepia Matsushima Aquarium in Matsushima since earlier this month. A fishing boat caught the pair of clione, which measure about 2 centimeters long, in a fishing net off Miyagi Prefecture on April 16 in an extremely unusual case of the creature found alive in a sea further south than Hokkaido. Clione start out with spiral shell, which disappear as they grow to leave a transparent body. "This year has seen fish in the northern sea caught in the southern waters. I guess the finding of a living clione (off Miyagi Prefecture) indicates that cold tides are coming down to the south," said Nobuhiro Inaba, an official from the Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium in Ibaraki Prefecture. Inaba himself has also found clione off the coast of Ibaraki Prefecture. In Japan, the clione is also called a "drift ice fairy." |
MATSUSHIMA, Miyagi -- A pair of clione -- sea creatures that look like angels and which usually live in cold seas like the Okhotsk -- were found in a warmer sea off Miyagi Prefecture, and were put on display at an aquarium here.
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