Fat greenling
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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Fat greenling is eaten as sashimi, teriyaki or a simmered dish.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Fat greenling
- Scientific name
- Hexagrammos otakii
- Japanese name
- アイナメ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Family
- Hexagrammidae
- Genus
- Hexagrammos
It lives along the coasts of Japan from Hokkaido to Kyushu and in the Seto Inland Sea, and off Korea, China and southern Sakhalin.
Basic data
- Range
- The coast of Hokkaido, Aomori to southern Kyushu, the Seto Inland Sea, Yellow Sea, Bohai Sea, and elsewhere
Where the Fat greenling 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
- アイナメ
- 简体中文
- 大泷六线鱼
- 繁體中文
- 大瀧六線魚
- 한국어
- 쥐노래미
- Português (Brasil)
- Lorcha-japonesa
- Русский
- Японский терпуг
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 — アイナメChecked: 2026-11-04
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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