Bicolor goatfish
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Young bicolor goatfish swim in mixed schools with other goatfishes and wrasses.
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Young bicolor goatfish swim in mixed schools with other goatfishes and wrasses.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Bicolor goatfish
- Scientific name
- Parupeneus barberinoides
- Japanese name
- インドヒメジ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Mulliformes
- Family
- Mullidae
- Genus
- Parupeneus
A goatfish that lives on sandy and gravelly bottoms of coral reefs and in seaweed beds.
It ranges from Japan's southern islands and the Ryukyus to Taiwan, northwestern Australia and the western Pacific.
How the Bicolor goatfish lives
It eats bottom-dwelling animals such as bristle worms, crustaceans and brittle stars. Adults usually live alone.
Museums VictoriaBasic data
- Range
- Ogasawara Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, northwestern Australia, western Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Bicolor goatfish 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
- インドヒメジ
- 简体中文
- 似条斑副绯鲤
- 繁體中文
- 鬚海緋鯉
- Español
- Chivito Bicolor
- Français
- Rouget bicolore
- Português (Brasil)
- Trilha-bicolor
- Italiano
- Triglia bicolore
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Timbungan dwiwarna
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá phèn hai màu
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 — インドヒメジChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria — Bicolour Goatfish, Parupeneus barberinoides (Bleeker 1852)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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