Golden venus chub
Amazing fact
The Golden venus chub has a keel-shaped belly edge behind its pelvic fins.
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The Golden venus chub has a keel-shaped belly edge behind its pelvic fins.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Golden venus chub
- Scientific name
- Hemigrammocypris neglectus
- Japanese name
- カワバタモロコ
- Group
- Freshwater animals
- Order
- Cypriniformes
- Family
- Cyprinidae
- Genus
- Hemigrammocypris
A small member of the carp family that lives in Honshu, west of Shizuoka Prefecture.
It lives in small streams on the plains, shallow lakes and marshes, farm ponds and irrigation channels.
How the Golden venus chub lives
It swims in groups from near the surface to the middle of the water. It mainly eats algae growing on surfaces, as well as aquatic insects. During spawning, males swim after females. It lays sticky eggs on aquatic plants near the surface or on roots hanging from land plants.
京都府大阪府立環境農林水産総合研究所Basic data
- Range
- Honshu west of Shizuoka Prefecture
- Conservation status in Japan
- Endangered (EN)Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Red List 2020
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
- カワバタモロコ
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 — カワバタモロコChecked: 2026-11-04
- 京都府 — カワバタモロコChecked: 2026-11-07
- 大阪府立環境農林水産総合研究所 — カワバタモロコChecked: 2026-11-07
- Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Red List 2020Checked: 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.
The conservation status in Japan is the category in the Red Lists of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, which assess the risk of extinction for wild animals in Japan.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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