Crescent sweetlips
Amazing fact
Young crescent sweetlips have irregular black markings on a white body.
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Young crescent sweetlips have irregular black markings on a white body.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Crescent sweetlips
- Scientific name
- Plectorhinchus cinctus
- Japanese name
- コショウダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Acanthuriformes
- Family
- Haemulidae
- Genus
- Plectorhinchus
It lives from the coasts of Japan to Taiwan, southern China, the Gulf of Thailand and the Gulf of Oman.
How the Crescent sweetlips lives
It lives on rocky reefs in shallow water.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Basic data
- Range
- Seto Inland Sea, Yakushima, western and southern Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, Hainan Island, and elsewhere
Where the Crescent 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
- コショウダイ
- 简体中文
- 花尾胡椒鲷
- 繁體中文
- 花尾胡椒鯛
- 한국어
- 어름돔
- Español
- Bakoko de bandas negras
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-arlequim-crescente
- Русский
- Пятнистый полосатый ворчун
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 — コショウダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 公益社団法人 瀬戸内海環境保全協会 — コショウダイChecked: 2026-11-07
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — コショウダイ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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