Japanese Warbonnet
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Many of the Japanese warbonnet's relatives are small, but some Japanese warbonnets grow large.
鳥羽水族館
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Many of the Japanese warbonnet's relatives are small, but some Japanese warbonnets grow large.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Japanese Warbonnet
- Scientific name
- Chirolophis japonicus
- Japanese name
- フサギンポ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Stichaeidae
- Genus
- Chirolophis
A fish that lives in the seas around Hokkaido, along Honshu's Sea of Japan coast and its Pacific coast as far as Ibaraki, and around the Korean Peninsula.
Basic data
- Range
- Sea of Japan coast from Hokkaido to Yamaguchi, Pacific coast from Hokkaido to Ibaraki, Korean Peninsula, and elsewhere
Where the Japanese Warbonnet 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
- フサギンポ
- 简体中文
- 日本眉鳚
- 繁體中文
- 日本眉鳚
- 한국어
- 괴도라치
- Español
- Pez penacho japonés
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 — フサギンポ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.
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