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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
The pearlscale angelfish is a seasonal visitor.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Pearlscale angelfish
- Scientific name
- Centropyge vrolikii
- Japanese name
- ナメラヤッコ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Pomacanthidae
- Genus
- Centropyge
A fish found across a wide area of the western Pacific, north to southern Japan and south to Lord Howe Island.
Its body looks as if it were painted gray and black, though the border between the colors is not sharp.
Basic data
- Range
- Western Pacific, Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean, and elsewhere
Where the Pearlscale angelfish 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
- ナメラヤッコ
- 简体中文
- 福氏刺尻鱼
- 繁體中文
- 福氏刺尻魚
- Français
- Poisson-ange à écailles perlées
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-anjo-madrepérola
- Italiano
- Pesce angelo pigmeo madreperlato
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 — ナメラヤッコChecked: 2026-11-04
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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