Diana's hogfish
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Diana's hogfish has large black spots on its pelvic and anal fins.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Diana's hogfish
- Scientific name
- Bodianus diana
- Japanese name
- モンツキベラ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Labriformes
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Bodianus
It lives from the Pacific coast of southern Japan and the Ryukyu Islands to the western Pacific and the Andaman Sea.
How the Diana's hogfish lives
It lives alone on rocky and coral reefs with good water flow.
沖縄美ら海水族館Basic data
- Range
- Pacific coast of southern Japan, Ryukyu Islands, western Pacific, Marshall Islands and Andaman Sea
Where the Diana's hogfish 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
- モンツキベラ
- 简体中文
- 鳍斑普提鱼
- 繁體中文
- 對斑狐鯛
- 한국어
- 얼룩사당놀래기
- Español
- Vieja Diana
- Français
- Labre Diane
- Deutsch
- Diana Schweinslippfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Bodião-de-Diana
- Русский
- Бодиан Дианы
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 — モンツキベラChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — モンツキベラ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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