Pinnate batfish
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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An adult pinnate batfish has a body shaped like a spade on a playing card.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Pinnate batfish
- Scientific name
- Platax pinnatus
- Japanese name
- アカククリ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Ephippiformes
- Family
- Ephippidae
- Genus
- Platax
Young fish are black with orange-edged fins and are said to mimic poisonous flatworms.
How the Pinnate batfish lives
Eggs drift with ocean currents, and the hatched larvae keep developing in the water column. Small juveniles live in shallow, sheltered bays. Larger juveniles live in caves along coastal slopes and drop-offs. Adults are sometimes alone, but usually form schools.
Oregon Coast AquariumBasic data
- Range
- South of Amami Oshima and the western Pacific
Where the Pinnate batfish 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
- アカククリ
- 简体中文
- 圆翅燕鱼
- 繁體中文
- 圓翅燕魚
- 한국어
- 제비활치
- Español
- Pez murciélago de cara roja
- Français
- Platax à nageoires jaunes
- Deutsch
- Spitzkopf-Fledermausfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-bumerangue-do-coral
- Italiano
- Pesce pipistrello nero e oro
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Buna kelabu
- Русский
- Морской нетопырь
- Türkçe
- Yarasa Balığı
- ไทย
- ปลาหูช้าง
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 — アカククリChecked: 2026-11-04
- Oregon Coast Aquarium — Pinnate BatfishChecked: 2026-11-07
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — アカククリ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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