Nagasaki damsel
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The Nagasaki damsel changes from blue when young to black as it grows.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Nagasaki damsel
- Scientific name
- Pomacentrus nagasakiensis
- Japanese name
- ナガサキスズメダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Pomacentridae
- Genus
- Pomacentrus
Where the name “Nagasaki damsel” comes from
Its scientific name refers to Nagasaki in Japan, where the type specimen came from.
Museums VictoriaIt lives from Japan's southern islands and the Ryukyus to southern Taiwan, the eastern Indian Ocean and the western Pacific.
How the Nagasaki damsel lives
It lives in small groups on sandy areas dotted with corals.
Museums VictoriaBasic data
- Range
- Ogasawara and Ryukyu islands, southern Taiwan, eastern Indian and western Pacific oceans west of New Caledonia, and elsewhere
Where the Nagasaki damsel 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
- ナガサキスズメダイ
- 简体中文
- 长崎雀鲷
- 繁體中文
- 長崎雀鯛
- 한국어
- 나가사끼자리돔
- Español
- Damita de Nagasaki
- Português (Brasil)
- Donzela-de-Nagasaki
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 — ナガサキスズメダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — ナガサキスズメダイChecked: 2026-11-07
- Museums Victoria — Blue-scribbled Damsel, Pomacentrus nagasakiensis Tanaka 1917Checked: 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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