Goldspotted spinefoot
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The goldspotted spinefoot has little unpleasant odor.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Goldspotted spinefoot
- Scientific name
- Siganus punctatus
- Japanese name
- ブチアイゴ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Siganidae
- Genus
- Siganus
It lives from the Ogasawara and Ryukyu Islands to Taiwan, the Gulf of Thailand, the western Pacific and western Australia.
Its Japanese name, meaning "spotted", comes from the ochre spots spread over its sides.
Basic data
- Range
- Ogasawara Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Gulf of Thailand, western Pacific, western Australia, and elsewhere
Where the Goldspotted spinefoot 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
- ブチアイゴ
- 简体中文
- 斑蓝子鱼
- 繁體中文
- 斑藍子魚
- Français
- Poisson-lapin ponctué
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-coelho-pintado
- Italiano
- Pesce coniglio puntato
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 — ブチアイゴ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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