Grey large-eye bream
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Grey large-eye bream have pointed canine teeth and fine teeth along the sides of their jaws.
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Grey large-eye bream have pointed canine teeth and fine teeth along the sides of their jaws.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Grey large-eye bream
- Scientific name
- Gymnocranius griseus
- Japanese name
- メイチダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Spariformes
- Family
- Lethrinidae
- Genus
- Gymnocranius
A fish found along the coasts of many parts of Japan, from Aomori Prefecture to the Ryukyu Islands.
How the Grey large-eye bream lives
It lives on rocky reefs.
海遊館Basic data
- Range
- Aomori, Miyagi, Osaka Bay, Goto Islands, Ryukyu Islands, and elsewhere
Where the Grey large-eye bream 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
- メイチダイ
- 简体中文
- 灰裸顶鲷
- 繁體中文
- 灰白鱲
- 한국어
- 까치돔
- Português (Brasil)
- Imperador-cinzento
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Tawe-tawe
- Русский
- Серый большеглазый пентапод
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 — メイチダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 海遊館 — メイチダイChecked: 2026-11-07
- Museums Victoria — Grey Seabream, Gymnocranius griseus (Temminck & Schlegel 1843)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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