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National Natural Monument
Other invertebrates
Diving Bell Spider
Argyroneta aquatica
The diving bell spider is Japan's only spider that lives almost entirely underwater, carrying air into a silk-spun chamber among water plants and living inside it. It eats prey and lays eggs there. Kyoto's Mizorogaike Pond, a wetland with relict ice-age life, has its biological community designated a Natural Monument, and this spider is part of it.
- Scientific name
- Argyroneta aquatica
- Group
- Other invertebrates
- Prefectures
- Kyoto
- 日本語
- ミズグモ
- 简体中文
- 水蛛
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The Diving Bell Spider is designated as a species without a fixed area and lives in places such as Kyoto.
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