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Young spotted halibut eat larger prey as they grow.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Spotted halibut
- Scientific name
- Verasper variegatus
- Japanese name
- ホシガレイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Pleuronectiformes
- Family
- Pleuronectidae
- Genus
- Verasper
It lives along the coasts of Japan and in the Seto Inland Sea, and in seas such as those off the Korean Peninsula, the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea.
How the Spotted halibut lives
It lives on sandy or muddy seabeds. The young eat small animals such as copepods and mysid shrimps.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海日本水産学会Basic data
- Range
- Seto Inland Sea, Korean Peninsula, Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, northern East China Sea, Peter the Great Bay, and elsewhere
- Conservation status in Japan
- Near Threatened (NT)Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)
Where the Spotted halibut 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
- ホシガレイ
- 简体中文
- 圆斑星鲽
- 繁體中文
- 圓斑星鰈
- 한국어
- 범가자미
- Русский
- Пятнистый палтус
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 — ホシガレイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — ホシガレイChecked: 2026-11-07
- 日本水産学会 — 九州西岸の砂浜海岸におけるホシガレイ着底仔稚魚の出現と食性Checked: 2026-11-07
- Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)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.
The conservation status in Japan is the category in the Red Lists of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, which assess the risk of extinction for wild animals in Japan.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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