Goldlined seabream
Amazing fact
Adult goldlined seabream develop strong crushing teeth on their throat bones and eat more hard-shelled molluscs.
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Adult goldlined seabream develop strong crushing teeth on their throat bones and eat more hard-shelled molluscs.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Goldlined seabream
- Scientific name
- Rhabdosargus sarba
- Japanese name
- ヘダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Spariformes
- Family
- Sparidae
- Genus
- Rhabdosargus
It lives in Japanese seas from Hokkaido to the Ryukyus, and along coasts such as those of China, Australia and South Africa.
It is said to get its name because its mouth is shaped like the Japanese character "he" (へ), like an upside-down V.
Up close, tiny yellow dots line up along the rows of scales, forming lengthwise stripes.
How the Goldlined seabream lives
In South Africa, it mainly searches for food during daylight. Young fish in South Africa feed mainly on aquatic plants and thread-like algae. In Durban Bay, it mainly eats crabs and bivalves living on the bottom surface. In KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, adults spawn repeatedly at night in coastal waters.
Royal Museum for Central AfricaBasic data
- Range
- Ryukyu Islands, southern Korea, Hainan, Gulf of Tonkin, Australia, Arabian Sea, Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Goldlined seabream 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
- ヘダイ
- 简体中文
- 平鲷
- 繁體中文
- 平鯛
- 한국어
- 청돔
- Español
- Sargo dorado
- Français
- Brème De Mer
- Deutsch
- Gelbflossenbrasse
- Português (Brasil)
- Sargo-de-Natal
- العربية
- عريض
- Русский
- Желтопёрый тупорыл
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 — ヘダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- Royal Museum for Central Africa — Rhabdosargus sarba (Forsskål, 1775)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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