Spiny squirrelfish
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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The spiny squirrelfish becomes active at night.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Spiny squirrelfish
- Scientific name
- Sargocentron spinosissimum
- Japanese name
- イットウダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Beryciformes
- Family
- Holocentridae
- Genus
- Sargocentron
It lives on rocky reefs along Japan's Pacific coast and elsewhere, and is also found around Jeju Island, southern Taiwan and Hawaii.
How the Spiny squirrelfish lives
During the day, it hides in the shade of rocks.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Basic data
- Range
- Kozushima, Ogasawara Islands, Pacific coast from Sagami Bay to Yakushima, Goto Islands, Jeju Island, southern Taiwan, and elsewhere
Where the Spiny squirrelfish 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
- イットウダイ
- 简体中文
- 刺棘鳞鱼
- 繁體中文
- 刺棘鱗魚
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-esquilo-do-Pacífico-Norte
- Русский
- Колючая рыба-солдат
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 — イットウダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — イットウダイ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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