Golden trevally
Amazing fact
Small young golden trevallies sometimes shelter among jellyfish tentacles.
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Small young golden trevallies sometimes shelter among jellyfish tentacles.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Golden trevally
- Scientific name
- Gnathanodon speciosus
- Japanese name
- コガネシマアジ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Carangiformes
- Family
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Gnathanodon
A fish that lives from Kagoshima and the Ryukyu Islands south of Okinawa Island to Taiwan, Hainan Island and across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Young fish are golden with black bars, but as they grow they turn silver and the bars fade.
How the Golden trevally lives
It lives in coastal waters in temperate and tropical regions. Young fish swim with sharks, other large fish and turtles to shield themselves from predators.
沖縄美ら海水族館Museums VictoriaBasic data
- Range
- Kagoshima Prefecture, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, Hainan Island, Gulf of Tonkin, and the Indo-Pacific
- Conservation status in Japan
- Near Threatened (NT)Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)
Where the Golden trevally 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
- コガネシマアジ
- 简体中文
- 无齿鲹
- 繁體中文
- 無齒鰺
- 한국어
- 골든트레블리
- Español
- Jurel dorado
- Français
- Carangue dorée
- Deutsch
- Königsmakrele
- Português (Brasil)
- Xaréu-dourado
- Italiano
- Carango indopacifico
- العربية
- زريدي ذهبي
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Kuwe mangali
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá khế vằn
- Русский
- Золотой каранг
- ไทย
- ปลาตะคอง
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 — コガネシマアジChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — コガネシマアジChecked: 2026-11-07
- Museums Victoria — Golden Trevally, Gnathanodon speciosusChecked: 2026-11-07
- Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)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.
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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