Red bambooleaf wrasse
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The red bambooleaf wrasse has a stripe running below its eye toward the base of its pectoral fin.
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The red bambooleaf wrasse has a stripe running below its eye toward the base of its pectoral fin.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Red bambooleaf wrasse
- Scientific name
- Pseudolabrus eoethinus
- Japanese name
- アカササノハベラ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Labriformes
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Pseudolabrus
It lives on rocky reefs from Japanese seas south of Fukui and Chiba to Jeju, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Fish once treated as one species, the sasanoha-bera wrasse, have been split into this species and the hoshi-sasanoha-bera.
Compared with the hoshi-sasanoha-bera, it lives in somewhat deeper water facing the open sea.
How the Red bambooleaf wrasse lives
Breeding males display yellow courtship coloration on their bodies.
市立しものせき水族館 海響館Basic data
- Range
- Hachijo Island, Ogasawara Islands, Yakushima, Okinawa Island, Jeju Island, Taiwan, Fujian, Hong Kong, and elsewhere
Where the Red bambooleaf wrasse 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
- アカササノハベラ
- 简体中文
- 红颈拟隆头鱼
- 繁體中文
- 紅頸擬隆頭魚
- 한국어
- 무점황놀래기
- Português (Brasil)
- Bodião-cantonês
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 — アカササノハベラChecked: 2026-11-04
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — アカササノハベラChecked: 2026-11-07
- 市立しものせき水族館 海響館 — 婚姻色比べ 青と黄色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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