Scarbreast tuskfin
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The scarbreast tuskfin has fang-like teeth at the front of its mouth.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Scarbreast tuskfin
- Scientific name
- Choerodon azurio
- Japanese name
- イラ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Labriformes
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Choerodon
It lives in rocky seas around Honshu down to Kyushu, and along the coasts of the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan and China.
How the Scarbreast tuskfin lives
It feeds mainly on animals that live on the seafloor.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Basic data
- Size
- Body length: about 40 cm
- Range
- Seto Inland Sea, southern Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, South China Sea coast of China, and elsewhere
Where the Scarbreast tuskfin 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
- イラ
- 简体中文
- 蓝猪齿鱼
- 繁體中文
- 藍豬齒魚
- 한국어
- 호박돔
- Português (Brasil)
- Bodião-dentuço-de-Azurio
- Tiếng Việt
- Scarbreast tuskfin
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 — イラChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — イラ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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