Barred mudskipper
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The barred mudskipper takes in oxygen from the air through its skin.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Barred mudskipper
- Scientific name
- Periophthalmus argentilineatus
- Japanese name
- ミナミトビハゼ
- Group
- Freshwater animals
- Order
- Gobiiformes
- Family
- Gobiidae
- Genus
- Periophthalmus
Where the name “Barred mudskipper” comes from
The species name argentilineatus refers to the vertical silver lines on the lower part of its body.
Museums Victoria and OzFishNetIt lives on muddy shore wetlands where fresh water mixes in, in the Ryukyu Islands south of Amami Oshima.
How the Barred mudskipper lives
It lives in mangrove forests at river mouths. It can stay on land for a long time if it closes its gill covers and keeps moisture in.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海沖縄美ら海水族館Basic data
- Range
- Ryukyu Islands south of Amami Oshima
Where the Barred mudskipper 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
- ミナミトビハゼ
- 简体中文
- 银线弹涂鱼
- 繁體中文
- 銀身彈塗魚
- Español
- Saltarín del fango franjeado
- Français
- Barred mudskipper
- Deutsch
- Silberlinien-Schlammspringer
- Italiano
- Perioftalmo
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 — ミナミトビハゼChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria and OzFishNet — Silverlined Mudskipper, Periophthalmus argentilineatusChecked: 2026-11-07
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — ミナミトビハゼChecked: 2026-11-07
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — ミナミトビハゼ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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