Painted sweetlips
Amazing fact
Young painted sweetlips swim with a fluttering motion like young bluestreak cleaner wrasses.
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Young painted sweetlips swim with a fluttering motion like young bluestreak cleaner wrasses.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Painted sweetlips
- Scientific name
- Plectorhinchus picus
- Japanese name
- アジアコショウダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Acanthuriformes
- Family
- Haemulidae
- Genus
- Plectorhinchus
It lives on shallow rocky and coral reefs, widely from Japan's southern islands across the Indo-Pacific.
Adults have countless small black spots on their sides, and all their fins turn black.
Basic data
- Range
- Ogasawara Islands, Hachijojima, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, Indo-Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Painted sweetlips 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
- アジアコショウダイ
- 简体中文
- 暗点胡椒鲷
- 繁體中文
- 暗點胡椒鯛
- Español
- Bakoko pintado
- Français
- Gaterin noir et blanc
- Deutsch
- Schwarzweiß-Süßlippe
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-arlequim-pintado
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Kumpele totol
- Русский
- Точечный гатерин
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 — アジアコショウダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — アジアコショウダイChecked: 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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