Greater amberjack
Amazing fact
Greater amberjack have a dark amber stripe from the nose to the dorsal fin.
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Greater amberjack have a dark amber stripe from the nose to the dorsal fin.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Greater amberjack
- Scientific name
- Seriola dumerili
- Japanese name
- カンパチ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Carangiformes
- Family
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Seriola
How the Greater amberjack lives
As juveniles, they feed on plankton. Adults eat crabs, squid and other fish. They spawn around reefs and shipwrecks.
NOAA FisheriesBasic data
- Range
- Izu Islands, Ogasawara Islands, Seto Inland Sea, Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, and temperate and tropical regions worldwide, and elsewhere
Where the Greater amberjack 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
- カンパチ
- 简体中文
- 高体鰤
- 繁體中文
- 杜氏鰤
- 한국어
- 잿방어
- Español
- Lirio
- Français
- Sériole couronnée
- Deutsch
- Große Bernsteinmakrele
- Português (Brasil)
- Charuteiro-catarino
- Italiano
- Ricciola
- العربية
- سريولة المتوسط
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Kuwe batu
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá cam
- Русский
- Большая сериола
- Türkçe
- Sarıkuyruk
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 — カンパチChecked: 2026-11-04
- NOAA Fisheries — Greater AmberjackChecked: 2026-11-05
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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