Japanese amberjack
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Young Japanese amberjack live among drifting seaweed.
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The real Japanese amberjack
- Scientific name
- Seriola quinqueradiata
- Japanese name
- ブリ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Carangiformes
- Family
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Seriola
Where the name “Japanese amberjack” comes from
The kanji for buri is said to come from the tasty winter fish sold in the last month of the year.
鳥羽水族館It is a shusseuo, or 'promotion fish': a fish whose name changes as it grows.
Its back is dark blue and its belly silvery-gray, with a yellow stripe running along the middle of its side.
It travels in schools through the seas around Japan with the seasons, eating fish such as sardines, saury and jack mackerel, as well as squid.
How the Japanese amberjack lives
Newly hatched larvae eat small zooplankton. Adults live in coastal and offshore waters with good currents. They lay eggs from early spring through summer.
東京都島しょ農林水産総合センターBasic data
- Diet
- Fish such as sardines, saury, horse mackerel and mackerel, squid, and other animals東京都島しょ農林水産総合センター
- Range
- Sea of Okhotsk, Pacific, Seto Inland Sea, Sea of Japan, and East China Sea from Hokkaido to southern Kyushu, and elsewhere鳥羽水族館
Where the Japanese amberjack 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
- ブリ
- 简体中文
- 黄尾鲹
- 繁體中文
- 鰤魚
- 한국어
- 방어
- Español
- Medregal Nipón
- Français
- Sériole du Japon
- Português (Brasil)
- Charuteiro-do-Japão
- Italiano
- Ricciola del Pacifico
- العربية
- امبرجاك ياباني
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Ikan buri
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá cam Nhật Bản
- Русский
- Желтохвост
- ไทย
- ปลาหางเหลือง
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 — ブリChecked: 2026-11-03
- 東京都島しょ農林水産総合センター — ブリChecked: 2026-11-03
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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