Yellowback seabream
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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The yellowback seabream has a yellowish-red body with yellow patches on its back.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Yellowback seabream
- Scientific name
- Dentex tumifrons
- Japanese name
- キダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Spariformes
- Family
- Sparidae
- Genus
- Dentex
A fish that prefers fairly warm seas, living from the coasts of Japan to Korea, Vietnam and Indonesia.
It looks a lot like the red seabream, but unlike it, it has no blue spots on its sides.
The yellow from its eyes to its mouth stands out, and that is where its name kidai ("yellow sea bream") comes from.
How the Yellowback seabream lives
It lives on sandy or muddy seabeds. It does not move over long distances.
京都府Basic data
- Size
- about 30 cm
- Range
- The East China Sea continental shelf and margins, the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, Indonesia, and elsewhere
Where the Yellowback seabream 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
- キダイ
- 简体中文
- 赤鯮
- 繁體中文
- 赤鯮
- 한국어
- 황돔
- Русский
- Жёлтый зубан
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 — キダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 京都府 — 丹後の海の生き物（キダイ）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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