Moontail bullseye
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The moontail bullseye is a fish with an entirely red body.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Moontail bullseye
- Scientific name
- Priacanthus hamrur
- Japanese name
- ホウセキキントキ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Priacanthiformes
- Family
- Priacanthidae
- Genus
- Priacanthus
It lives from southern Japan's Pacific coast, the Izu and Ogasawara Islands and the Ryukyus across the Indo-Pacific.
How the Moontail bullseye lives
It feeds on shrimps, young crabs and fish. Off Mumbai, feeding is thought to decrease at certain times because of the strain of breeding.
ICARBasic data
- Range
- Pacific coast of southern Japan, Izu and Ogasawara Islands, Ryukyu Islands, and Indo-Pacific
Where the Moontail bullseye 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
- ホウセキキントキ
- 简体中文
- 宝石大眼鲷
- 繁體中文
- 寶石大眼鯛
- Español
- Catalufa espejuelo
- Français
- Beauclaire lanterne
- Deutsch
- Gewöhnlicher Großaugenbarsch
- Português (Brasil)
- Catalufa-rabo-de-lua
- Italiano
- Perchia dai grandi occhi
- العربية
- حسرم مبذول
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Serindang
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá trác đỏ
- Русский
- Бычеглаз-хамрур
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 — ホウセキキントキChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — ホウセキキントキChecked: 2026-11-07
- ICAR — Central Institute of Fisheries Education — FOOD AND FEEDING HABITS OF PRIACANTHUS HAMRUR FROM MUMBAI, NORTH WEST COAST OF INDIAChecked: 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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