Masked spinefoot
Amazing fact
The masked spinefoot has a dark band running diagonally from its chin through its eye to the back of its neck.
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The masked spinefoot has a dark band running diagonally from its chin through its eye to the back of its neck.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Masked spinefoot
- Scientific name
- Siganus puellus
- Japanese name
- マジリアイゴ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Siganidae
- Genus
- Siganus
It lives from Okinawa south through the Ryukyus, and around Taiwan, Hong Kong and the islands of the western Pacific.
Basic data
- Diet
- Algae, sea squirts, and sponges
- Range
- Ryukyu Islands south of Okinawa Islands, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Keeling Islands, western Pacific, Caroline Islands, and elsewhere
Where the Masked spinefoot 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
- マジリアイゴ
- 简体中文
- 眼带蓝子鱼
- 繁體中文
- 眼帶籃子魚
- Français
- Picot lignes bleues
- Deutsch
- Masken-Kaninchenfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-coelho-de-linhas-azuis
- Italiano
- Pesce coniglio mascherato
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Baronang kunyit
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 — マジリアイゴChecked: 2026-11-04
- Australian Museum — Masked Rabbitfish, Siganus puellus (Schlegel, 1852)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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