Arc-eye hawkfish
Amazing fact
Arc-eye hawkfish swim up from the bottom to spawn.
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Arc-eye hawkfish swim up from the bottom to spawn.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Arc-eye hawkfish
- Scientific name
- Paracirrhites arcatus
- Japanese name
- メガネゴンベ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Centrarchiformes
- Family
- Cirrhitidae
- Genus
- Paracirrhites
Where the name “Arc-eye hawkfish” comes from
The genus name combines Greek for beside with Latin for curl.
Quantitative Aquatics, Inc. (FishBase)It lives in shallow parts of coral reefs, from the seas south of Tanabe Bay to the Indian Ocean, the western Pacific and Hawaii.
How the Arc-eye hawkfish lives
It mainly eats shrimps, small fish, crabs and other crustaceans. It usually lives alone. It perches on corals and may quickly hide inside them.
Quantitative Aquatics, Inc. (FishBase)宇久井ビジターセンターBasic data
- Range
- South of Tanabe Bay, the Indo-West Pacific, and the Hawaiian Islands
Where the Arc-eye hawkfish 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
- メガネゴンベ
- 简体中文
- 副䱵
- 繁體中文
- 副䱵
- Español
- Halcón de ojo de arco
- Français
- Epervier Sabot de Cheval
- Deutsch
- Monokel-Korallenwächter
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-falcão-de-olho-anelado
- Italiano
- Pesce falco linea bianca
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 — メガネゴンベChecked: 2026-11-04
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — メガネゴンベChecked: 2026-11-07
- Quantitative Aquatics, Inc. (FishBase) — Paracirrhites arcatus, Arc-eye hawkfishChecked: 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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