Japanese Coris
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Adult male Japanese Coris have sawtooth-like markings along their sides.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Japanese Coris
- Scientific name
- Coris musume
- Japanese name
- ムスメベラ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Labriformes
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Coris
A fish that lives in Japan south of Chiba, Taiwan, southeastern Australia and New Zealand.
How the Japanese Coris lives
At night or when attacked by enemies, it hides by burying its body completely in sand.
沖縄美ら海水族館Basic data
- Range
- South of Chiba Prefecture, Taiwan, New Zealand, and southeastern Australia
Where the Japanese Coris 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
- ムスメベラ
- 简体中文
- 黑带盔鱼
- 繁體中文
- 黑帶盔魚
- Español
- Coris japonés
- Português (Brasil)
- Bodião-banana-do-norte
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 — ムスメベラChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — ムスメベラ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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