Lemon damsel
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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The lemon damsel has a black spot at the base of its pectoral fin.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Lemon damsel
- Scientific name
- Pomacentrus moluccensis
- Japanese name
- ネッタイスズメダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Pomacentridae
- Genus
- Pomacentrus
It lives from Wakayama, Kochi and the Ryukyus to southern Taiwan, the eastern Indian Ocean and the western Pacific.
How the Lemon damsel lives
It lives in small groups near the bottom of coral reefs.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Basic data
- Range
- Yakushima, Ryukyu Islands, southern Taiwan, eastern Indian and western Pacific oceans east of the Andaman Sea, and elsewhere
Where the Lemon 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
- ネッタイスズメダイ
- 简体中文
- 黄雀鲷
- 繁體中文
- 摩鹿加雀鯛
- Español
- Damita limón
- Français
- Demoiselle citron
- Deutsch
- Zitronendemoiselle
- Português (Brasil)
- Donzela-limão
- Italiano
- Damigella limone
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Betok kuning
- Русский
- Помацентрус лимонный
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 — ネッタイスズメダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — ネッタイスズメダイ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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