White-edged rockfish
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The white-edged rockfish has a white rear edge to its tail fin.
THE REAL WORLD
The real White-edged rockfish
- Scientific name
- Sebastes taczanowskii
- Japanese name
- エゾメバル
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Family
- Sebastidae
- Genus
- Sebastes
It lives near the shore and sometimes enters river mouths and places where seawater and fresh water mix.
It lives along the coasts from Hokkaido south to Ishikawa on the Sea of Japan side and to Miyagi on the Pacific side.
How the White-edged rockfish lives
The male courts the female before mating. Sperm received during mating stays inside the female until the eggs mature. The young hatch inside the female, grow using yolk, and are then born.
北海道Basic data
- Range
- Sea of Okhotsk coast of Hokkaido, Sea of Japan coast from Hokkaido to Ishikawa, and Pacific coast from Hokkaido to Miyagi
Where the White-edged rockfish 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
- エゾメバル
- 简体中文
- 边尾平鲉
- 繁體中文
- 邊尾平鮋
- 한국어
- 탁자볼락
- Português (Brasil)
- Cantarilho-de-borda-branca
- Русский
- Восточный морской окунь
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 — エゾメバルChecked: 2026-11-04
- 北海道 — エゾメバル[蝦夷目張]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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