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The mandarin dogfish gives birth to baby sharks.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Mandarin dogfish
- Scientific name
- Cirrhigaleus barbifer
- Japanese name
- ヒゲツノザメ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Chondrichthyes
- Order
- Squaliformes
- Family
- Squalidae
- Genus
- Cirrhigaleus
A deep-sea shark found off Japan's Pacific coast from Chiba to Tosa Bay, in the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, Bali and elsewhere.
How the Mandarin dogfish lives
It moves as if avoiding strong light.
沖縄美ら海水族館Basic data
- Range
- Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, Bali, Lombok, and elsewhere
Where the Mandarin dogfish 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
- ヒゲツノザメ
- 简体中文
- 长须卷盔鲨
- 繁體中文
- 長鬚卷盔鯊
- Español
- Tolla bigotuda
- Français
- Squale Moustache
- Deutsch
- Mandarinschnauz-Dornhai
- Português (Brasil)
- Tubarão-mandarim-do-norte
- Italiano
- Pescecane mandarino comune
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Hiu tinggam hitam
- Русский
- Усатая колючая акула
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 — ヒゲツノザメChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — ヒゲツノザメChecked: 2026-11-07
- 海遊館 — ヒゲツノザメ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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