Ishigaki cardinalfish
Amazing fact
Ishigaki cardinalfish live in seaweed beds and areas with sandy or muddy bottoms.
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Ishigaki cardinalfish live in seaweed beds and areas with sandy or muddy bottoms.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Ishigaki cardinalfish
- Scientific name
- Ostorhinchus ishigakiensis
- Japanese name
- ミヤコイシモチ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Kurtiformes
- Family
- Apogonidae
- Genus
- Ostorhinchus
Basic data
- Range
- South of and including Amami Oshima, Philippines
Where the Ishigaki cardinalfish 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
- ミヤコイシモチ
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 — ミヤコイシモチChecked: 2026-11-04
- Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium — Cardinalfish speciesChecked: 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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