Stocky anthias
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In stocky anthias, large females change into males.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Stocky anthias
- Scientific name
- Pseudanthias hypselosoma
- Japanese name
- ケラマハナダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Serranidae
- Genus
- Pseudanthias
It lives from Japan's southern Pacific coast, the Izu and Ogasawara islands and the Ryukyus across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Stocky anthias lives
It mainly eats animal plankton, as well as small crustaceans.
粟国村Basic data
- Range
- Pacific coast of southern Japan, Izu and Ogasawara Islands, Ryukyu Islands, and Indian to Pacific Oceans
Where the Stocky anthias 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
- ケラマハナダイ
- 简体中文
- 高体拟花鮨
- 繁體中文
- 高體擬花鱸
- Français
- Anthias trapu
- Português (Brasil)
- Anthias-perola
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Ikan gadis dempak
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 — ケラマハナダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — ケラマハナダイChecked: 2026-11-07
- 粟国村 — ケラマハナダイ（けらまはなだい）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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