Brassy chub
Amazing fact
The brassy chub has teeth on its tongue and on the roof of its mouth.
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The brassy chub has teeth on its tongue and on the roof of its mouth.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Brassy chub
- Scientific name
- Kyphosus vaigiensis
- Japanese name
- イスズミ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Kyphosidae
- Genus
- Kyphosus
A fish found from the seas around Japan to Korea, Taiwan and across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Young fish live around drifting seaweed, while adults live on rocky reefs in shallow seas.
How the Brassy chub lives
It is an omnivorous fish that eats both plants and animals.
Smithsonian Tropical Research InstituteBasic data
- Range
- Abashiri in Hokkaido, Ryukyu Islands, Ogasawara Islands, Taiwan, Indo-Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Brassy chub 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
- イスズミ
- 简体中文
- 低鳍舵鱼
- 繁體中文
- 低鰭舵魚
- 한국어
- 황줄깜정이
- Español
- Chopa
- Français
- Calicagère Bleue
- Deutsch
- Messing-Ruderfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Preguiçosa-amarela
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 — イスズミChecked: 2026-11-04
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute — Species: Kyphosus vaigiensis, Yellow Chub, Yellow Sea ChubChecked: 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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