Clown coris
Amazing fact
Male clown coris develop a hump on the forehead as they grow.
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Male clown coris develop a hump on the forehead as they grow.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Clown coris
- Scientific name
- Coris aygula
- Japanese name
- カンムリベラ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Labriformes
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Coris
A wrasse that lives from the Izu and Ogasawara Islands and the Ryukyu Islands across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
It is often seen among corals, on sea floors of sand and pebbles, and on shores where the tide comes and goes.
How the Clown coris lives
It turns over rocks to find and catch prey. It eats shelled mollusks, hermit crabs, other crabs and sea urchins. Adults live alone except when spawning.
University of Michigan Animal Diversity WebBasic data
- Range
- Izu Islands, Ogasawara Islands, Ryukyu Islands, southern Taiwan, Indian to Pacific oceans excluding Easter Island, and elsewhere
Where the Clown coris 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
- カンムリベラ
- 简体中文
- 红喉盔鱼
- 繁體中文
- 紅喉盔魚
- Español
- Doncella circense
- Français
- Clarisse clown
- Deutsch
- Spiegelfleck-Junker
- Português (Brasil)
- Bodião-corcunda
- Italiano
- Labro pagliaccio testa gobba
- العربية
- قورس مهرج
- Русский
- Корис-клоун
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 — カンムリベラChecked: 2026-11-04
- University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web — Coris aygulaChecked: 2026-11-06
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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