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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
The spangled emperor has a red mouth interior.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Spangled emperor
- Scientific name
- Lethrinus nebulosus
- Japanese name
- ハマフエフキ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Spariformes
- Family
- Lethrinidae
- Genus
- Lethrinus
A member of the emperor family, it lives from Japanese seas to Taiwan and across the Indian Ocean and western Pacific.
Blue bands fan out forward and downward from its eyes, and its sides are dotted with pale blue spots.
How the Spangled emperor lives
It also lives in seagrass beds and mangrove swamps. It mainly eats bottom-dwelling animals such as small fish, molluscs, crabs and sea stars. Young fish form large schools. Adults usually live alone or in small groups.
Museums Victoria沖縄美ら海水族館Basic data
- Range
- Izu Islands, Ogasawara Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Jeju Island, Taiwan, Indian Ocean to western Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Spangled emperor 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
- ハマフエフキ
- 简体中文
- 星斑裸颊鲷
- 繁體中文
- 青嘴龍占魚
- 한국어
- 갈돔
- Français
- Capitaine blanc
- Deutsch
- Langnasen-Straßenkehrer
- Português (Brasil)
- Imperador-nebuloso
- العربية
- شعري سديمي
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Ketamba
- Русский
- Звездчатый летрин
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 — ハマフエフキChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria — Spangled Emperor, Lethrinus nebulosus (Forsskål 1775)Checked: 2026-11-07
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — ハマフエフキChecked: 2026-11-07
- 海遊館 — ハマフエフキ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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