White-tailed Chromis
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Some white-caudal chromis have a tail fin that turns yellow.
THE REAL WORLD
The real White-tailed Chromis
- Scientific name
- Chromis albicauda
- Japanese name
- コガネスズメダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Pomacentridae
- Genus
- Chromis
A fish that lives from the Izu and Ogasawara Islands, the southern coasts of Honshu and the Ryukyu Islands across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the White-tailed Chromis lives
It lives on rocky reefs and coral reefs.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Basic data
- Range
- Izu Islands, Ogasawara Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Indo-Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the White-tailed Chromis 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
- コガネスズメダイ
- 简体中文
- 白尾光鳃鱼
- 繁體中文
- 白尾光鰓魚
- 한국어
- 흰꼬리노랑자리돔
- Español
- Castañuela de rabo blanco
- Português (Brasil)
- Donzela-amarela-de-cauda-branca
- Italiano
- Castagnola coda bianca
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 — コガネスズメダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — コガネスズメダイ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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