Largescale blackfish
Amazing fact
Largescale blackfish eat many small crustaceans and other animals in summer, but mainly seaweed in winter.
東京都島しょ農林水産総合センター
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Largescale blackfish eat many small crustaceans and other animals in summer, but mainly seaweed in winter.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Largescale blackfish
- Scientific name
- Girella punctata
- Japanese name
- メジナ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Kyphosidae
- Genus
- Girella
It lives in Japanese waters from Niigata and Ibaraki to Kyushu, in the Seto Inland Sea, and off southern Korea and Taiwan.
How the Largescale blackfish lives
Young fish move in schools to offshore waters or other rocky shores at sunrise to feed. At night, young fish return to their original shore to rest. Around the Izu Islands, they lay eggs from winter to spring.
東京都島しょ農林水産総合センターBasic data
- Range
- Sea of Japan side of Hokkaido, Tohoku, Seto Inland Sea, Ryukyu Islands, southern Korean Peninsula, Jeju, Taiwan, and elsewhere
Where the Largescale blackfish 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
- メジナ
- 简体中文
- 斑鱾
- 繁體中文
- 瓜子鱲
- 한국어
- 벵에돔
- Español
- Chopa de pequeña escala
- Português (Brasil)
- Girela-de-escamas-pequenas
- Русский
- Пятнистая гирелла
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 — メジナChecked: 2026-11-04
- 東京都島しょ農林水産総合センター — メジナ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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