Whitefin trevally
Amazing fact
The horse trevally has a strongly curved lateral line on its diamond-shaped body.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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The horse trevally has a strongly curved lateral line on its diamond-shaped body.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Whitefin trevally
- Scientific name
- Carangoides equula
- Japanese name
- カイワリ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Carangiformes
- Family
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Carangoides
Where the name “Whitefin trevally” comes from
The name kaiwari is said to come from the forked shape of its tail fin. The scientific name Kaiwarinus was formed from the Japanese name kaiwari.
三重県京都府It is also listed under the scientific name Kaiwarinus equula.
It lives in Japanese waters from Hokkaido to Kyushu, off Korea and the coast of China, and as far away as South Africa and Hawaii.
Basic data
- Range
- The Seto Inland Sea, East China Sea, southern Korean Peninsula, Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, Taiwan, and elsewhere
Where the Whitefin trevally 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
- カイワリ
- 简体中文
- 高体若鲹
- 繁體中文
- 高體若鰺
- 한국어
- 민전갱이
- العربية
- شيماني خيلي
- Русский
- Белопёрая кавалла
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 — カイワリChecked: 2026-11-04
- 京都府 — 丹後の海の生き物（カイワリ）Checked: 2026-11-07
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — カイワリChecked: 2026-11-07
- 三重県 — ヒラアジの仲間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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