Asian sheepshead wrasse
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Asian sheepshead wrasses change sex from female to male.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Asian sheepshead wrasse
- Scientific name
- Semicossyphus reticulatus
- Japanese name
- コブダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Labriformes
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Semicossyphus
Where the name “Asian sheepshead wrasse” comes from
It is also called “kandai,” or cold-season sea bream, because it tastes better in the cold season.
男鹿水族館GAOIt lives along the coasts from Hokkaido to Kyushu and in the Seto Inland Sea, and in the seas of Korea and Hong Kong.
When they grow big, both males and females get a forehead that sticks out like a bump.
How the Asian sheepshead wrasse lives
They live on rocky reefs. They catch and eat shellfish and crustaceans.
海遊館Basic data
- Range
- Pacific coast from Hokkaido to southern Kyushu, Sea of Japan and East China Sea coast to western Kyushu, Korea, and elsewhere
Where the Asian sheepshead wrasse 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
- コブダイ
- 简体中文
- 金黄突额隆头鱼
- 繁體中文
- 金黃突額隆頭魚
- 한국어
- 혹돔
- Français
- Labre à tête de mouton
- العربية
- لبروسية آسيوية غنمية الرأس
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Ikan Kobudai
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 — コブダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 海遊館 — コブダイChecked: 2026-11-07
- 新潟大学佐渡自然共生科学センター臨海実験所 — コブダイChecked: 2026-11-07
- 男鹿水族館GAO — コブダイ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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