Bluespotted cornetfish
Amazing fact
The "yagara" in the Japanese name of the bluespotted cornetfish means the shaft of an arrow.
鳥羽水族館
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The "yagara" in the Japanese name of the bluespotted cornetfish means the shaft of an arrow.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Bluespotted cornetfish
- Scientific name
- Fistularia commersonii
- Japanese name
- アオヤガラ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Syngnathiformes
- Family
- Fistulariidae
- Genus
- Fistularia
It lives from Hokkaido to the Pacific coast of southern Japan, and across a wide area of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Basic data
- Range
- Pacific coast from Hokkaido south to southern Japan and the Indo-Pacific
Where the Bluespotted cornetfish 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
- アオヤガラ
- 简体中文
- 棘烟管鱼
- 繁體中文
- 康氏馬鞭魚
- 한국어
- 홍대치
- Español
- Pez corneta pintada
- Français
- Poisson-flûte à taches bleues
- Deutsch
- Glatter Flötenfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Corneta-pintada
- Italiano
- Pesce flauto
- Русский
- Голубопятнистая свистулька
- Türkçe
- Külah Balığı
- ไทย
- ปลาปากขลุ่ย
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 — アオヤガラ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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