Yellowlip emperor
Amazing fact
Yellowlip emperors generally have a peak in breeding activity around the new moon.
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Yellowlip emperors generally have a peak in breeding activity around the new moon.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Yellowlip emperor
- Scientific name
- Lethrinus xanthochilus
- Japanese name
- ムネアカクチビ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Spariformes
- Family
- Lethrinidae
- Genus
- Lethrinus
A member of the emperor family, found from the Ogasawara Islands and the islands from Okinawa southward to Taiwan and across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Yellowlip emperor lives
Young yellowlip emperors need a lagoon environment as they grow. Before spawning, they are thought to move locally to sheltered lagoons or the edge of exposed reefs. They are thought to lay their eggs after dark.
Department of Primary Industries and Regional DevelopmentBasic data
- Range
- Ogasawara Islands, Ryukyu Islands south from the Okinawa Islands, southern Taiwan, South China Sea, Indo-Pacific except Hawaii
Where the Yellowlip emperor 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
- ムネアカクチビ
- 简体中文
- 黄唇裸颊鲷
- 繁體中文
- 黃唇龍占魚
- Français
- Empereur bec-de-cane
- Português (Brasil)
- Imperador-de-lábios-amarelos
- Русский
- Таитийский летрин
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 — ムネアカクチビChecked: 2026-11-04
- Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development — Fun Fact Sheet: Yellowlip Emperor – Indian Ocean TerritoriesChecked: 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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