Barred flagtail
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The barred flagtail has a silver body and a tail fin striped in black and white.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Barred flagtail
- Scientific name
- Kuhlia mugil
- Japanese name
- ギンユゴイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Centrarchiformes
- Family
- Kuhliidae
- Genus
- Kuhlia
A fish found from Ibaraki to Kyushu, the Ryukyu and Ogasawara Islands, and across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Barred flagtail lives
It lives beneath the surface in rough, wave-swept water. Unlike other flagtails that spend part of their lives in brackish river water, it spends its whole life at sea.
八丈植物公園・八丈ビジターセンター宇久井ビジターセンターBasic data
- Range
- Pacific coast from Ibaraki to southern Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Ogasawara Islands, Indo-Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Barred flagtail 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
- ギンユゴイ
- 简体中文
- 花尾汤鲤
- 繁體中文
- 鯔形湯鯉
- 한국어
- 은잉어
- Español
- Dara bandera
- Français
- Doule à queue rubanée
- Deutsch
- Fünfband-Fahnenschwanz
- Português (Brasil)
- Kuhila-de-cauda-listrada
- Italiano
- Coda a bandiera barrato
- Русский
- Ленточная кулия
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 — ギンユゴイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 海遊館 — ギンユゴイChecked: 2026-11-07
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — ギンユゴイChecked: 2026-11-07
- 八丈植物公園・八丈ビジターセンター — ギンユゴイ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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