Silver moony
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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Silver moonies live in Japan’s Ryukyu Islands and also in the Red Sea.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Silver moony
- Scientific name
- Monodactylus argenteus
- Japanese name
- ヒメツバメウオ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Monodactylidae
- Genus
- Monodactylus
It also lives in river mouths where seawater meets fresh water, and in fresh water.
Basic data
- Range
- Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific, Caroline Islands, Samoa Islands, and elsewhere
Where the Silver moony 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
- ヒメツバメウオ
- 简体中文
- 银大眼鲳
- 繁體中文
- 銀鱗鯧
- Español
- Mono argentus
- Français
- Poisson-lune argenté
- Deutsch
- Silberflossenblatt
- Português (Brasil)
- Mono-australiano
- العربية
- سمكة الأصبع
- Русский
- Серебряная рыба-ласточка
- ไทย
- ปลาเฉี่ยวหิน
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 — ヒメツバメウオChecked: 2026-11-04
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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