Red-spotted bandfish
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The bandfish has conspicuous deep red stripes along the sides of its body.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Red-spotted bandfish
- Scientific name
- Acanthocepola krusensternii
- Japanese name
- アカタチ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Priacanthiformes
- Family
- Cepolidae
- Genus
- Acanthocepola
It lives on sandy and muddy seafloors in seas from Niigata and Sagami Bay down to Kyushu.
How the Red-spotted bandfish lives
When young, its head bones are more swollen than in adults and have well-developed tooth-like spines.
上海海洋大学Basic data
- Diet
- Small fish and other prey
- Range
- Niigata to southern Kyushu, Sagami Bay to southern Kyushu, the East China Sea, and elsewhere
Where the Red-spotted bandfish 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
- アカタチ
- 简体中文
- 克氏棘赤刀鱼
- 繁體中文
- 克氏棘赤刀魚
- 한국어
- 점줄홍갈치
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-faixa-de-manchas-vermelhas
- Русский
- Акантоцепола Крузенштерна
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 — アカタチChecked: 2026-11-04
- 上海海洋大学 — 中国赤刀鱼科鱼类的系统分类 — 克氏棘赤刀鱼 Acanthocepola krusensterniiChecked: 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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