Scorpaena miostoma
Amazing fact
The Kokuchi-fusakasago scorpionfish has a reddish-brown body with red and white mottling.
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The Kokuchi-fusakasago scorpionfish has a reddish-brown body with red and white mottling.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Scorpaena miostoma
- Scientific name
- Scorpaena miostoma
- Japanese name
- コクチフサカサゴ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Family
- Scorpaenidae
- Genus
- Scorpaena
It lives along Japan's Pacific and Sea of Japan coasts and in the Seto Inland Sea, and also around Korea and Taiwan.
How the Scorpaena miostoma lives
It lives on rocky reefs.
宇久井ビジターセンターBasic data
- Range
- Osaka Bay, western Seto Inland Sea, southern Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and northern and southern Taiwan, and elsewhere
Where the Scorpaena miostoma 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
- コクチフサカサゴ
- 简体中文
- 小口鲉
- 繁體中文
- 小口鮋
- 한국어
- 쭈글감펭
- Italiano
- Scorfano giapponese
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 — コクチフサカサゴChecked: 2026-11-04
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — コクチフサカサゴ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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