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Adult doublebar rabbitfish move around in pairs.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Virgate rabbitfish
- Scientific name
- Siganus virgatus
- Japanese name
- ヒメアイゴ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Siganidae
- Genus
- Siganus
A brightly colored rabbitfish that lives in seas from the islands of southern Japan to Taiwan, Vietnam and New Guinea.
A dark band runs at a slant from the front of its dorsal fin to its head, and at night its whole body turns brownish.
How the Virgate rabbitfish lives
It lives on inshore coral reefs in areas with rocks and sand. It eats algae growing on rocks.
Museums Victoria沖縄美ら海水族館Basic data
- Range
- Kuchinoerabujima, Amami Oshima, Okinawa Island, Taiwan, Vietnam, Gulf of Thailand, eastern Indian Ocean to western Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Virgate rabbitfish 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
- ヒメアイゴ
- 简体中文
- 带蓝子鱼
- 繁體中文
- 藍帶臭肚魚
- Français
- Sigan à deux bandes
- Deutsch
- Kopfband-Kaninchenfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-coelho-de-duas-faixas
- Italiano
- Pesce coniglio bifasciato
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Semadar biasa
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 — ヒメアイゴChecked: 2026-11-04
- 海遊館 — ヒメアイゴChecked: 2026-11-07
- Museums Victoria — Doublebar Rabbitfish, Siganus virgatus (Valenciennes 1835)Checked: 2026-11-07
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — ヒメアイゴ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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