Sailfin snapper
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The sailfin snapper has a black spot at the base of its tail fin.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Sailfin snapper
- Scientific name
- Symphorichthys spilurus
- Japanese name
- イレズミフエダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Lutjaniformes
- Family
- Lutjanidae
- Genus
- Symphorichthys
It has yellow and blue stripes from head to tail fin, and an orange band crossing the eye and the pectoral fin.
Basic data
- Range
- Ryukyu Islands and tropical western Pacific
- Conservation status in Japan
- Near Threatened (NT)Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)
Where the Sailfin snapper 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
- イレズミフエダイ
- 简体中文
- 帆鳍笛鲷
- 繁體中文
- 帆鰭笛鯛
- Español
- Pez pirata
- Deutsch
- Segelflossen-Schnapper
- Português (Brasil)
- Caranha-vela-ornata
- Italiano
- Lutiano blu e oro
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Tambak kuncir
- Русский
- Симфорихт
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 — イレズミフエダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 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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