Redcoat
Amazing fact
The redcoat has silvery-white stripes that are slightly wider than its reddish stripes.
鳥羽水族館
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The redcoat has silvery-white stripes that are slightly wider than its reddish stripes.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Redcoat
- Scientific name
- Sargocentron rubrum
- Japanese name
- アヤメエビス
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Beryciformes
- Family
- Holocentridae
- Genus
- Sargocentron
It lives from Japan's Pacific coast and southern islands across the Indo-West Pacific, including the Red Sea, and in the eastern Mediterranean.
Along its sides, reddish-brown to red-purple stripes alternate with silvery-white ones.
Basic data
- Range
- Miyakejima, southern Taiwan, Pratas Islands, Paracel Islands, Indo-West Pacific, and eastern Mediterranean, and elsewhere
Where the Redcoat 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
- アヤメエビス
- 简体中文
- 黑带棘鳍鱼
- 繁體中文
- 黑帶棘鰭魚
- 한국어
- 분홍얼게돔
- Español
- Candil Rubio
- Français
- Marignan Rouget
- Deutsch
- Rotstreifenhusar
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-esquilo-vermelho
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá sơn đỏ
- Русский
- Красная рыба-солдат
- Türkçe
- Hindistan balığı
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 — アヤメエビス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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