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Blotcheye soldierfish

Amazing fact

The blotcheye soldierfish has a bright red body and large eyes.

沖縄美ら海水族館
Blotcheye soldierfish in its habitat (illustration)

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The blotcheye soldierfish has a bright red body and large eyes.

Source沖縄美ら海水族館 — アカマツカサ

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THE REAL WORLD

The real Blotcheye soldierfish

Scientific name
Myripristis berndti
Japanese name
アカマツカサ
Group
Ocean animals
Order
Beryciformes
Family
Holocentridae
Genus
Myripristis
Facts about the real animal.

Where the name “Blotcheye soldierfish” comes from

The Japanese name akamatsukasa comes from its scales resembling a pine cone.

海遊館
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It lives mainly on coral reefs, from the southern islands of Japan to Taiwan and widely across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

鳥羽水族館 — アカマツカサ
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It likes dim places such as gaps between rocks, and is often seen in groups.

鳥羽水族館 — アカマツカサ
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Its scales are hard.

鳥羽水族館 — アカマツカサ

How the Blotcheye soldierfish lives

At night, it leaves its rocky shelter and becomes active.

新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海

Basic data

Range
Indo-Pacific excluding Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal and Easter Island, tropical eastern Pacific islands, and elsewhere
鳥羽水族館

Where the Blotcheye soldierfish has been recorded

World map with dots where the Blotcheye soldierfish has been recorded
Each dot marks a place with observations or specimens shared on GBIF. Some records are of animals that strayed or were brought by people, so the dots are not always where the animal lives.

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

Where it livesJapanAsiaWorld oceansCoral reefs

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Names around the world

简体中文
伯特氏锯鳞鱼
繁體中文
凸頜鋸鱗魚
Português (Brasil)
Soldado-olho-manchado

Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.

Sources and how we check

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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