Compressed toby
Amazing fact
The compressed toby has a large dark patch at its dorsal-fin base, ringed in blue or green.
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The compressed toby has a large dark patch at its dorsal-fin base, ringed in blue or green.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Compressed toby
- Scientific name
- Canthigaster compressa
- Japanese name
- ヒメキンチャクフグ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Tetraodontidae
- Genus
- Canthigaster
A sharpnose puffer that lives from the Ogasawara Islands, Suruga Bay and Iriomote Island to Taiwan and the western Pacific.
How the Compressed toby lives
It lives around underwater reefs.
Museums VictoriaBasic data
- Range
- Ogasawara Islands, Suruga Bay, Iriomote Island, Taiwan, and the western Pacific
Where the Compressed toby 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
- ヒメキンチャクフグ
- 简体中文
- 细纹扁背鲀
- 繁體中文
- 扁背尖鼻魨
- Español
- Tamborín laberinto
- Français
- Canthigaster imprimé
- Português (Brasil)
- Baiacu-anão-de-pintas-finas
- Italiano
- Pesce cofano labirinto
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 — ヒメキンチャクフグChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria — Compressed Toby, Canthigaster compressa (Procé 1822)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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