Purple queen
Amazing fact
In male amethyst anthias, the soft rays of the pelvic and tail fins extend like threads.
沖縄美ら海水族館
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
In male amethyst anthias, the soft rays of the pelvic and tail fins extend like threads.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Purple queen
- Scientific name
- Pseudanthias pascalus
- Japanese name
- ハナゴイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Serranidae
- Genus
- Pseudanthias
How the Purple queen lives
It lives in large schools along the outer edges of coral reefs. It feeds on zooplankton. Large females change into males.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Basic data
- Range
- South of Sagami Bay and the western Pacific
Where the Purple queen 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
- ハナゴイ
- 简体中文
- 紫红拟花鮨
- 繁體中文
- 厚唇擬花鱸
- Français
- Anthias mauve
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 — ハナゴイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — ハナゴイChecked: 2026-11-07
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — ハナゴイ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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