Grub fish
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
The grub fish has dark brown V-shaped markings on its white body.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Grub fish
- Scientific name
- Parapercis sexfasciata
- Japanese name
- クラカケトラギス
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Uranoscopiformes
- Family
- Pinguipedidae
- Genus
- Parapercis
It lives in Japanese seas from Aomori to Kyushu and off the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, China and Java.
How the Grub fish lives
It is usually seen alone.
宇久井ビジターセンターBasic data
- Range
- Seto Inland Sea, Ariake Sea, East China Sea, southern Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, and elsewhere
Where the Grub fish 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
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 — クラカケトラギスChecked: 2026-11-04
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — クラカケトラギス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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