Prickly leatherjacket
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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The prickly leatherjacket’s whisker-like projections are modified scales.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Prickly leatherjacket
- Scientific name
- Chaetodermis penicilligerus
- Japanese name
- ヒゲハギ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Monacanthidae
- Genus
- Chaetodermis
A fish found in Japanese seas from Honshu to Kyushu, and from Southeast Asia to the north coast of Australia.
How the Prickly leatherjacket lives
It is sometimes found in places thick with seaweed. It eats crustaceans, marine bristle worms and shellfish.
Australian Museum市立しものせき水族館 海響館Basic data
- Range
- Northern East China Sea, Taiwan, Philippine Islands, Gulf of Thailand, and elsewhere
Where the Prickly leatherjacket 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
- ヒゲハギ
- 简体中文
- 棘皮单棘鲀
- 繁體中文
- 棘皮單棘魨
- 한국어
- 가시쥐치
- Deutsch
- Schmuckfeilenfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-porco-folhado
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Sonang rambutan
- Русский
- Хетодерма
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 — ヒゲハギChecked: 2026-11-04
- 市立しものせき水族館 海響館 — ヒゲハギChecked: 2026-11-07
- Australian Museum — Tasselled Leatherjacket, Chaetodermis penicilligera (Cuvier, 1817)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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