Butterfly peacock bass

Amazing fact

Adult peacock cichlids have a gold-edged eyespot at the base of the tail.

Florida Museum of Natural History

Butterfly peacock bass in its habitat (illustration)

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An illustration based on the real animal.

A little discovery to share.

Adult peacock cichlids have a gold-edged eyespot at the base of the tail.

SourceFlorida Museum of Natural History — Butterfly Peacock Bass

THE REAL WORLD

The real Butterfly peacock bass

Scientific name: Cichla ocellaris
Japanese name: アイスポットシクリッド
Group: Freshwater animals

Order: Blenniiformes
Family: Cichlidae
Genus: Cichla

Facts about the real animal.

A cichlid that lives across much of the Amazon River in South America.

鳥羽水族館 — アイスポットシクリッド

It grows to be very large.

鳥羽水族館 — アイスポットシクリッド

How the Butterfly peacock bass lives

It is active during the day and eats fish. It forms pairs and lays eggs on flat surfaces. Parents move newly hatched young to nests in shallow hollows in the bottom or on rocks or logs.

U.S. Geological Survey

Basic data

Size: up to about 60 cm
Range: Amazon River basin

鳥羽水族館

Where the Butterfly peacock bass has been recorded

Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF

Where it livesCentral and South America Rivers and wetlands

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: アイスポットシクリッド
简体中文: 眼点丽鱼
繁體中文: 眼點麗魚
Español: Tucunaré
Français: Toucounaré
Deutsch: Grüner Augenfleck-Kammbarsch
Português (Brasil): Tucunaré
Tiếng Việt: Cá vược công
Русский: Цихла ленточная
ไทย: ปลาหมอออสเซลาริส

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 — アイスポットシクリッドChecked: 2026-11-04
Florida Museum of Natural History — Butterfly Peacock BassChecked: 2026-11-07
U.S. Geological Survey — Butterfly Peacock Bass (Cichla ocellaris) - 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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