Blackbanded trevally
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The blackbanded trevally's dark bands become less distinct as it grows.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Blackbanded trevally
- Scientific name
- Seriolina nigrofasciata
- Japanese name
- アイブリ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Carangiformes
- Family
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Seriolina
It lives from coasts around Japan to Korea, Taiwan and the coast of China, and in the Indo-West Pacific.
How the Blackbanded trevally lives
Young fish are seen beneath rafts of floating seaweed. It mainly eats fish, along with cephalopods and crustaceans. Off southwestern India, it is thought to have a long spawning season with a summer peak.
Museums VictoriaICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research InstituteBasic data
- Range
- Okinawa Island, East China Sea, southern Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, Taiwan, Chinese coast, and Indo-West Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Blackbanded trevally 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
- アイブリ
- 简体中文
- 小甘鲹
- 繁體中文
- 小甘鰺
- 한국어
- 매지방어
- Français
- Sériole amourez
- Deutsch
- Gebänderte Stachelmakrele
- Português (Brasil)
- Seriola-costeira
- Italiano
- Ricciola fasciata
- العربية
- سمك الملك أسود الخطوط
- Русский
- Чернополосая лакедра
- ไทย
- ปลาสำลี
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 — アイブリChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria — Blackbanded Amberjack, Seriolina nigrofasciataChecked: 2026-11-07
- ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute — Seriolina nigrofasciata (Ruppel, 1829), its fishery and biological aspects off south-west coast of IndiaChecked: 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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