Peristedion orientale
Amazing fact
The Kihoubou armored searobin has a head and body covered in hard bony plates with backward-pointing spines.
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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The Kihoubou armored searobin has a head and body covered in hard bony plates with backward-pointing spines.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Peristedion orientale
- Scientific name
- Peristedion orientale
- Japanese name
- キホウボウ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Family
- Peristediidae
- Genus
- Peristedion
Basic data
- Diet
- Shrimp and other bottom-dwelling organisms
- Range
- East China Sea, southern Korean Peninsula, Chinese East China Sea coast, Taiwan, and elsewhere
Where the Peristedion orientale 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
- キホウボウ
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 — キホウボウChecked: 2026-11-04
- 국립해양생물자원관 — 황성대Checked: 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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