Painted sweetlips
Amazing fact
Young painted sweetlips are thought to mimic venomous striped eel catfish for protection.
沖縄美ら海水族館
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Young painted sweetlips are thought to mimic venomous striped eel catfish for protection.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Painted sweetlips
- Scientific name
- Diagramma pictum
- Japanese name
- コロダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Acanthuriformes
- Family
- Haemulidae
- Genus
- Diagramma
It lives along the coasts from Honshu to the Ryukyu Islands, around Jeju and Taiwan, off southern China and across the Indian Ocean and western Pacific.
Its colors change dramatically as it grows: the black stripes of the young give way to yellow spots in adults.
How the Painted sweetlips lives
Young fish swim by wriggling their bodies. Young fish live alone. As they grow, they may form small groups.
宇久井ビジターセンターBasic data
- Range
- The Indo-West Pacific
Where the Painted sweetlips 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
- コロダイ
- 简体中文
- 密点少棘胡椒鲷
- 繁體中文
- 密點少棘胡椒鯛
- Français
- Diagramme peint
- Deutsch
- Silber-Süßlippe
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-arlequim-prateado
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Kumpele gaji
- Русский
- Мелкочешуйная диаграмма
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 — コロダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — コロダイChecked: 2026-11-07
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — コロダイ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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