Largescaled terapon
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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Young largescaled terapons can be seen far offshore.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Largescaled terapon
- Scientific name
- Terapon theraps
- Japanese name
- ヒメコトヒキ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Terapontidae
- Genus
- Terapon
It lives from the coasts of Japan, from Honshu to the Ryukyu Islands, to the coasts of China, Taiwan and the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Its body shape is like the jarbua terapon's, but it can be told apart by the black lengthwise stripes along its sides.
How the Largescaled terapon lives
Young fish shelter beneath floating Sargassum algae and debris. It eats both plants and animals. Adults also live among mangroves.
Museums VictoriaBasic data
- Range
- Ryukyu Islands, Ogasawara, Taiwan, Paracel Islands, Spratly Islands, Indo-Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Largescaled terapon 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
- ヒメコトヒキ
- 简体中文
- 条纹鯻
- 繁體中文
- 條紋鯻
- 한국어
- 네줄벤자리
- Español
- Trompetero cola de bandera
- Français
- Violon tigre
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Kerong-kerong batu
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá căng vẩy to
- Русский
- Обыкновенный терапон
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 — ヒメコトヒキChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria — Largescale Grunter, Terapon theraps Cuvier 1829Checked: 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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