Tidepool Gunnel
Amazing fact
The tidepool gunnel has a row of triangular black markings along the base of its dorsal fin.
鶴岡市立加茂水族館
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The tidepool gunnel has a row of triangular black markings along the base of its dorsal fin.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Tidepool Gunnel
- Scientific name
- Pholis nebulosa
- Japanese name
- ギンポ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Pholidae
- Genus
- Pholis
It lives in shallow water on sandy-muddy bottoms, seaweed beds and rocky reefs, and is also seen in tide pools.
It lives along Japan's coasts from Hokkaido to Kyushu, in the Seto Inland Sea, and off eastern and southern Korea.
How the Tidepool Gunnel lives
In Ago Bay, it usually spawns from late autumn to early winter.
The Japanese Society of Fisheries ScienceBasic data
- Range
- Hokkaido coast except the Sea of Okhotsk, Seto Inland Sea, eastern and southern Korean Peninsula, and elsewhere
Where the Tidepool Gunnel 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
- ギンポ
- 简体中文
- 云鳚
- 繁體中文
- 云鳚
- 한국어
- 베도라치
- Português (Brasil)
- Gunel-nebuloso
- Русский
- Чешуеголовый маслюк
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 — ギンポChecked: 2026-11-04
- 鶴岡市立加茂水族館 — ギンポChecked: 2026-11-07
- The Japanese Society of Fisheries Science — Reproductive Biology of the Tidepool Gunnel Pholis nebulosa in Ago Bay, Central JapanChecked: 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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