Spotted bambooleaf wrasse
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The spotted bambooleaf wrasse is a fish often caught by anglers.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Spotted bambooleaf wrasse
- Scientific name
- Pseudolabrus sieboldi
- Japanese name
- ホシササノハベラ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Labriformes
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Pseudolabrus
It lives in Japanese seas from the Tsugaru Strait to Kyushu, in the Seto Inland Sea, and around Jeju and Taiwan.
A member of the sasanoha-bera wrasse group, it has a brownish body with white spots.
Basic data
- Range
- Hachijo Island, Yakushima, Seto Inland Sea, Jeju Island, Taiwan, and elsewhere
Where the Spotted bambooleaf 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
- ホシササノハベラ
- 简体中文
- 西氏拟隆头鱼
- 繁體中文
- 西氏擬隆頭魚
- 한국어
- 황놀래기
- Português (Brasil)
- Bodião-bambu
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 — ホシササノハベラ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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