Red dragonet
Amazing fact
The red dragonet’s large dark mark on its dorsal fin fades as it grows.
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The red dragonet’s large dark mark on its dorsal fin fades as it grows.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Red dragonet
- Scientific name
- Synchiropus altivelis
- Japanese name
- ベニテグリ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Callionymidae
- Genus
- Synchiropus
It is also listed under the scientific name Foetorepus altivelis.
It lives off the Sea of Japan coast from Hyogo to Kyushu, the Pacific coast from the Enshu Sea to Kyushu, and around Jeju Island and Taiwan.
Its name is said to mean a crimson fish caught with a teguri, a net dragged along the sea floor.
How the Red dragonet lives
It lives on deep seabeds, including the edges of continental shelves.
Naturhistoriska riksmuseet / FishBaseBasic data
- Range
- Hyogo to Kyushu, Enshu-nada to southern Kyushu, the East China Sea, Jeju Island, and Taiwan
Where the Red dragonet 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
- ベニテグリ
- 简体中文
- 红连鳍䲗
- 繁體中文
- 紅連鰭䲗
- 한국어
- 도화양태
- Português (Brasil)
- Mandarim-japonês
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá đàn lia gai xuôi
- Русский
- Желтопёрый фетореп
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 — ベニテグリChecked: 2026-11-04
- Naturhistoriska riksmuseet / FishBase — Synchiropus altivelisChecked: 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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