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The red-eyed puffer has red eyes.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Red-eyed Puffer
- Scientific name
- Takifugu chrysops
- Japanese name
- アカメフグ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Tetraodontidae
- Genus
- Takifugu
It lives along the Pacific coast of Japan from Fukushima to Tosa Bay, and off the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula.
How the Red-eyed Puffer lives
It lives on coastal rocky reefs where seaweed grows abundantly.
宇久井ビジターセンターBasic data
- Range
- Pacific coast from Fukushima Prefecture to Tosa Bay, northern Kyushu coast, and southern Korean Peninsula coast
Where the Red-eyed Puffer 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
- アカメフグ
- 简体中文
- 痣斑多纪鲀
- 繁體中文
- 痣斑多紀魨
- Español
- Fugu ojos de fuego
- Português (Brasil)
- Fugu-olho-de-fogo
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 — アカメフグChecked: 2026-11-04
- 市立しものせき水族館 海響館 — アカメフグChecked: 2026-11-07
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — アカメフグ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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