Elegant firefish
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Empress Emerita Michiko proposed the Japanese name Akebonohaze.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Elegant firefish
- Scientific name
- Nemateleotris decora
- Japanese name
- アケボノハゼ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Ptereleotridae
- Genus
- Nemateleotris
A member of the goby group with beautiful colors, it lives from the Izu Peninsula to the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, and the Indian Ocean and western Pacific.
It lives on the outer slopes of coral reefs, on sandy bottoms mixed with gravel and in rubble areas.
Basic data
- Range
- Indo-West Pacific east of Mauritius, Caroline Islands, Marshall Islands, and elsewhere
Where the Elegant firefish 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
- アケボノハゼ
- 简体中文
- 华丽线塘鳢
- 繁體中文
- 華麗線塘鱧
- 한국어
- 퍼플고비
- Español
- Pez fuego elegante
- Français
- Eleotris décoré
- Deutsch
- Dekor-Schwertgrundel
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-fogo-elegante
- Italiano
- Ghiozzo di fuoco elegante
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Bekut-api anggun
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 — アケボノハゼChecked: 2026-11-04
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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