Blueface angelfish
Amazing fact
The blueface angelfish has a net-like body pattern made by the yellow edges of its blue scales.
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The blueface angelfish has a net-like body pattern made by the yellow edges of its blue scales.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Blueface angelfish
- Scientific name
- Pomacanthus xanthometopon
- Japanese name
- アデヤッコ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Pomacanthidae
- Genus
- Pomacanthus
It lives on rocky and coral reefs, from Okinawa and southern Taiwan to the eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific.
How the Blueface angelfish lives
It lives where coral grows well, especially in areas with caves or large crevices. It eats sponges and tunicates. It is seen alone or in pairs.
U.S. Geological Survey国立科学博物館Basic data
- Range
- Akajima and Iriomote in Okinawa, southern Taiwan, eastern Indian and western Pacific oceans excluding Fiji, and elsewhere
Where the Blueface angelfish 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
- アデヤッコ
- 简体中文
- 黄颅刺盖鱼
- 繁體中文
- 黃顱蓋刺魚
- Español
- Ángel de cara azul
- Français
- Poisson-ange à front jaune
- Deutsch
- Blaukopf-Kaiserfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-anjo-de-face-azul
- Italiano
- Pesce angelo faccia blu
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Injel pelanduk
- Русский
- Жёлтомасковый ангел
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 — アデヤッコChecked: 2026-11-04
- 国立科学博物館 — Pomacanthus xanthometoponChecked: 2026-11-07
- U.S. Geological Survey — bluefaced angel (Pomacanthus xanthometopon) - Species ProfileChecked: 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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