Flame hawkfish
Amazing fact
The flame hawkfish lives in the waters of the Ogasawara Islands and the Great Barrier Reef.
鳥羽水族館
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The flame hawkfish lives in the waters of the Ogasawara Islands and the Great Barrier Reef.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Flame hawkfish
- Scientific name
- Neocirrhites armatus
- Japanese name
- ベニゴンベ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Centrarchiformes
- Family
- Cirrhitidae
- Genus
- Neocirrhites
Basic data
- Range
- Ogasawara Islands, Minamidaito Island, Ie Island, Okinawa Island, Guam, Micronesia, and Great Barrier Reef
Where the Flame hawkfish 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
- ベニゴンベ
- 简体中文
- 盔新䱵
- 繁體中文
- 盔新䱵
- Español
- Halcón habanero
- Français
- Poisson faucon flamme
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-falcão-flamejante
- Русский
- Колючий неоциррит
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 — ベニゴンベ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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