Wrasse
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Young wrasses have spots at the bases of their dorsal and tail fins.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Wrasse
- Scientific name
- Halichoeres tenuispinis
- Japanese name
- ホンベラ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Labriformes
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Halichoeres
A fish that lives along the coasts of Japan from Aomori to Kyushu and in the Seto Inland Sea, and off Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines.
How the Wrasse lives
It lives near rocky areas with abundant seaweed in bays. At night, it burrows into the sand to rest.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Basic data
- Range
- Izu Islands, Seto Inland Sea, southern Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, Taiwan, Philippine Islands, and elsewhere
Where the Wrasse 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
- ホンベラ
- 简体中文
- 细棘海猪鱼
- 繁體中文
- 細棘海豬魚
- 한국어
- 놀래기
- Português (Brasil)
- Bodião-de-Hong-Kong
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 — ホンベラChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — ホンベラ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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