Yellow-edged lyretail
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Young yellow-edged lyretails have yellow backs and white bellies.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Yellow-edged lyretail
- Scientific name
- Variola louti
- Japanese name
- バラハタ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Serranidae
- Genus
- Variola
It lives from the Pacific coast south of Wakayama, the Ryukyu Islands and the Izu and Ogasawara Islands to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Its tail fin is curved in like a crescent moon, and each of its fins is edged in yellow.
How the Yellow-edged lyretail lives
It is active at night. It feeds on fish and crustaceans. Young fish quickly hide behind rocks and in similar places.
沖縄美ら海水族館Museums Victoria宇久井ビジターセンターBasic data
- Range
- Pacific coast of southern Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Izu Islands, Ogasawara Islands, and Indo-Pacific
Where the Yellow-edged lyretail 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
- バラハタ
- 简体中文
- 侧牙鲈
- 繁體中文
- 星鱠
- Español
- Mero Luna Creciente
- Français
- Druide
- Deutsch
- Mondsichel-Juwelenbarsch
- Português (Brasil)
- Garoupa-papagaio
- Italiano
- Cernia dalla coda lunata
- Русский
- Радужная вариола
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 — バラハタChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — バラハタChecked: 2026-11-07
- Museums Victoria — Yellowedge Coronation Trout, Variola louti (Forsskål 1775)Checked: 2026-11-07
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — バラハタChecked: 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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