Twospot surgeonfish
Amazing fact
The twospot surgeonfish sweeps sand or rock with its teeth and sucks up tiny food particles.
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The twospot surgeonfish sweeps sand or rock with its teeth and sucks up tiny food particles.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Twospot surgeonfish
- Scientific name
- Ctenochaetus binotatus
- Japanese name
- コクテンサザナミハギ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Acanthuridae
- Genus
- Ctenochaetus
A fish that lives from the southern Pacific coast of Japan, the Izu and Ogasawara Islands and the Ryukyu Islands across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
It has small spots on its head and cheeks, and a black spot at the rear end of its dorsal and anal fins.
How the Twospot surgeonfish lives
It lives among corals in shallow water. Its food includes diatoms and small pieces of algae.
宇久井ビジターセンターMuseums VictoriaBasic data
- Range
- Pacific coast of southern Japan, Izu and Ogasawara Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Indian Ocean to Pacific Ocean
Where the Twospot surgeonfish 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
- コクテンサザナミハギ
- 简体中文
- 双斑栉齿刺尾鱼
- 繁體中文
- 雙斑櫛齒刺尾鯛
- Español
- Pez Cirujano de Dos Puntos
- Français
- Poisson-chirurgien à deux taches
- Português (Brasil)
- Barbeiro mancha negra
- Italiano
- Pesce chirurgo due punti
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 — コクテンサザナミハギChecked: 2026-11-04
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — コクテンサザナミハギChecked: 2026-11-07
- Museums Victoria — Fishes of Australia — Twospot Bristletooth, Ctenochaetus binotatusChecked: 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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