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Agonomalus proboscidalis

Amazing fact

Females of Agonomalus proboscidalis can store sperm inside their bodies.

鳥羽水族館
Agonomalus proboscidalis in its habitat (illustration)

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It has a long, horn-like barbel on its snout.

Source鳥羽水族館 — アツモリウオ

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THE REAL WORLD

The real Agonomalus proboscidalis

Scientific name
Agonomalus proboscidalis
Japanese name
アツモリウオ
Group
Ocean animals
Order
Perciformes
Family
Agonidae
Genus
Agonomalus
Facts about the real animal.

It is also listed under the scientific name Hypsagonus proboscidalis.

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It lives on sandy-muddy seabeds and rocky reefs around Hokkaido, in the Sea of Japan, and off Sakhalin and the southern Kuril Islands.

鳥羽水族館 — アツモリウオ
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It has a long, horn-like barbel on its snout.

鳥羽水族館 — アツモリウオ
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Its name is said to come from Taira no Atsumori, dressed in red armor.

鳥羽水族館 — アツモリウオ

How the Agonomalus proboscidalis lives

It lays its eggs in places such as gaps between rocks. It lays orange eggs in clusters. It has been observed laying eggs repeatedly.

鳥羽水族館

Basic data

Range
The East China Sea, the eastern Korean Peninsula to the Strait of Tartary, western Sakhalin, the southern Kuril Islands, and elsewhere
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Where the Agonomalus proboscidalis has been recorded

World map with dots where the Agonomalus proboscidalis has been recorded
Each dot marks a place with observations or specimens shared on GBIF. Some records are of animals that strayed or were brought by people, so the dots are not always where the animal lives.

Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF

Where it livesHokkaidoJapanAsiaCoastsOcean

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Names around the world

简体中文
斑鳍髭八角鱼
繁體中文
斑鰭髭八角魚

Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.

Sources and how we check

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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