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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
Ara are also eaten by people.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Ara
- Scientific name
- Niphon spinosus
- Japanese name
- アラ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Serranidae
- Genus
- Niphon
It used to be classified in the sea bass family, but it is now placed in the grouper family.
It lives on sandy bottoms mixed with bits of shell and on rocky reefs, along coasts and at the edge of the continental shelf.
It lives in Japanese seas from Hokkaido to Kyushu and in the seas off the Korean Peninsula and Taiwan.
Basic data
- Range
- East China Sea, southern Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, Taiwan, Sulu Sea, and elsewhere
Where the Ara 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
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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