Red lizardfish
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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The red lizardfish catches small fish with its sharp teeth.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Red lizardfish
- Scientific name
- Synodus ulae
- Japanese name
- アカエソ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Aulopiformes
- Family
- Synodontidae
- Genus
- Synodus
It lives along the Pacific coast of Japan from Chiba to Yakushima, around southern islands, and off Taiwan and the Hawaiian Islands.
On sandy patches of shallow rocky and coral reefs, it buries itself in the sand and watches for prey from the bottom.
How the Red lizardfish lives
When a person approaches, it swims away rapidly.
宇久井ビジターセンターBasic data
- Range
- Hachijo Island, Ogasawara Islands, Tokara Islands, Amami Oshima, Taiwan, Hawaiian Islands, and elsewhere
Where the Red lizardfish 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
- アカエソ
- 简体中文
- 红斑狗母
- 繁體中文
- 紅斑狗母魚
- Русский
- Шахматный ящероголов
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 — アカエソChecked: 2026-11-04
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — アカエソ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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