Herald's angelfish
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Herald's angelfish changes sex from female to male.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Herald's angelfish
- Scientific name
- Centropyge heraldi
- Japanese name
- ヘラルドコガネヤッコ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Pomacanthidae
- Genus
- Centropyge
Where the name “Herald's angelfish” comes from
Its scientific name honours a person named Earl Herald.
Museums VictoriaA fish found from southern Japanese waters and Taiwan to northeastern Australia and the central Pacific.
How the Herald's angelfish lives
It lives on coral reefs and rocky reefs. A male forms a group with females.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Museums VictoriaBasic data
- Range
- Izu Islands, Ogasawara Islands, Ryukyu Islands, southern Taiwan, and elsewhere
Where the Herald's angelfish 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
- ヘラルドコガネヤッコ
- 简体中文
- 海氏刺尻鱼
- 繁體中文
- 海氏刺尻魚
- Español
- Pez ángel enano amarillo
- Français
- Poisson-ange nain de Hérald
- Deutsch
- Heralds Zwergkaiserfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-anjo-amarelo
- Italiano
- Pesce angelo pigmeo giallo
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 — ヘラルドコガネヤッコChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria — Fishes of Australia — Yellow Angelfish, Centropyge heraldiChecked: 2026-11-07
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — ヘラルドコガネヤッコ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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