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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
The stripey lives in seas around Japan, Hawaii and Australia.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Stripey
- Scientific name
- Microcanthus strigatus
- Japanese name
- カゴカキダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Kyphosidae
- Genus
- Microcanthus
Its Japanese name is said to come from people who once carried kago (palanquins) on their shoulders.
Basic data
- Range
- Ryukyu Islands, southern Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, Taiwan, and elsewhere
Where the Stripey 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
- カゴカキダイ
- 简体中文
- 细刺鱼
- 繁體中文
- 柴魚
- 한국어
- 범돔
- Español
- Stripey
- Français
- Microcanthe
- Deutsch
- Nagasakifisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Mado-comum
- Русский
- Полосатый микрокант
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 — カゴカキダイChecked: 2026-11-04
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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