Spotbelly rockfish
Amazing fact
The spotbelly rockfish has well-developed head spines and a hollow between its eyes.
男鹿水族館GAO
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The spotbelly rockfish has well-developed head spines and a hollow between its eyes.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Spotbelly rockfish
- Scientific name
- Sebastes pachycephalus
- Japanese name
- ムラソイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Family
- Sebastidae
- Genus
- Sebastes
It is also listed under the scientific name Sebastes pachycephalus pachycephalus.
How the Spotbelly rockfish lives
It lives in rocky areas of shallow seas.
男鹿水族館GAOBasic data
- Range
- Pacific coast from Tsugaru Strait to Miyazaki, Sea of Japan and East China Sea coast from Hokkaido to Kyushu, and Busan
Where the Spotbelly rockfish 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
- ムラソイ
- 简体中文
- 厚头平鲉
- 繁體中文
- 厚頭平鮋
- 한국어
- 개볼락
- Español
- Rocote Manchado
- Português (Brasil)
- Cantarilho-pedra
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 — ムラソイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 男鹿水族館GAO — ムラソイ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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