Magnificent rabbitfish
Amazing fact
The magnificent rabbitfish has a black or dark brown band running through its eye to its chin.
国立科学博物館
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The magnificent rabbitfish has a black or dark brown band running through its eye to its chin.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Magnificent rabbitfish
- Scientific name
- Siganus magnificus
- Japanese name
- アンダマンフォックスフェイス
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Siganidae
- Genus
- Siganus
Where the name “Magnificent rabbitfish” comes from
The genus name Siganus comes from a Latin word for a fish.
FishBase / Quantitative Aquatics, Inc.A rabbitfish that is common in the Andaman Sea, in the eastern Indian Ocean.
How the Magnificent rabbitfish lives
It is sometimes seen alone. It eats algae and small invertebrates. Young fish live hidden among corals.
FishBase / Quantitative Aquatics, Inc.Basic data
- Range
- Eastern Indian Ocean
Where the Magnificent rabbitfish 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
- 简体中文
- 大蓝子鱼
- 繁體中文
- 大藍子魚
- Deutsch
- Andamanen-Fuchsgesicht
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-face-de-raposa-magnifico
- Italiano
- Pesce coniglio magnifico
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 — アンダマンフォックスフェイスChecked: 2026-11-04
- 国立科学博物館 — Siganus magnificus — Magnificent RabbitfishChecked: 2026-11-07
- FishBase / Quantitative Aquatics, Inc. — Siganus magnificus, Magnificent rabbitfishChecked: 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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