Oblique-banded Sweetlips
Amazing fact
An oblique-banded sweetlips has horizontal stripes when young that become more diagonal as it grows.
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An oblique-banded sweetlips has horizontal stripes when young that become more diagonal as it grows.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Oblique-banded Sweetlips
- Scientific name
- Plectorhinchus lineatus
- Japanese name
- アヤコショウダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Acanthuriformes
- Family
- Haemulidae
- Genus
- Plectorhinchus
It lives on shallow rocky and coral reefs, from the Ogasawara and Ryukyu Islands into the western Pacific.
Its name comes from "aya", a twill weave, because its slanting black lines look like a twill pattern.
How the Oblique-banded Sweetlips lives
It is mainly active at night. It eats bottom-dwelling invertebrates on sandy flats and in seagrass beds. During the day, small groups are often seen resting in open areas.
Museums VictoriaBasic data
- Range
- Ogasawara Islands, Yakushima, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, western Pacific, Andaman Sea, and elsewhere
Where the Oblique-banded Sweetlips 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
- アヤコショウダイ
- 简体中文
- 条纹胡椒鲷
- 繁體中文
- 條紋胡椒鯛
- Français
- Gaterin à lignes
- Deutsch
- Diagonal-Süßlippe
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-arlequim-diagonal
- العربية
- نهاش مخطط
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Kumpele sirip kuning
- Русский
- Полосатый гатерин
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 — アヤコショウダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria — Oblique-banded Sweetlips, Plectorhinchus lineatusChecked: 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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