Goggle-eye Pipefish
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The goggle-eye pipefish grows relatively large for a pipefish.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Goggle-eye Pipefish
- Scientific name
- Trachyrhamphus serratus
- Japanese name
- ヒフキヨウジ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Syngnathiformes
- Family
- Syngnathidae
- Genus
- Trachyrhamphus
A pipefish that lives along the coasts of Japan and off Taiwan, and from India past the Malay Peninsula to Zhejiang in China.
It looks like the itohiki-youji and waka-youji pipefishes, but can be told apart by its shorter snout.
Basic data
- Range
- Seto Inland Sea, Okinawa, Jeju Island, Taiwan, continental shelf from southwestern India via Malay Peninsula to Zhejiang, and elsewhere
Where the Goggle-eye Pipefish 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
- ヒフキヨウジ
- 简体中文
- 粗吻海龙
- 繁體中文
- 鋸粗吻海龍
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Tangkur jambul
- Русский
- Зубчатая игла-трахирамф
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 — ヒフキヨウジChecked: 2026-11-04
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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