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The common foxface is a fish with a vivid appearance.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Common foxface
- Scientific name
- Siganus vulpinus
- Japanese name
- フォックスフェイスラビットフィッシュ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Siganidae
- Genus
- Siganus
It lives in the western Pacific, from the Philippines and Indonesia to New Guinea and the Great Barrier Reef.
It looks very much like the hifuki-aigo rabbitfish, but it can be told apart because it has no black spots on its sides.
Basic data
- Range
- Western Pacific, western Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea, Great Barrier Reef, New Caledonia, and elsewhere
Where the Common foxface 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
- 简体中文
- 狐蓝子鱼
- 繁體中文
- 狐藍子魚
- Français
- Picot renard
- Deutsch
- Fuchsgesicht
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-face-de-raposa-comum
- Italiano
- Pesce coniglio volpino
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Semadar cicit
- Русский
- Пестряк-лис
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 — フォックスフェイスラビットフィッシュ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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