Sixline wrasse
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The sixline wrasse has a black spot at the base of its dorsal fin.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Sixline wrasse
- Scientific name
- Pseudocheilinus hexataenia
- Japanese name
- ニセモチノウオ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Labriformes
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Pseudocheilinus
It lives from Hachijojima, the Ogasawara Islands and the Ryukyus to Taiwan and across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Basic data
- Range
- Ogasawara Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, South China Sea, Hainan Island, Indo-Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Sixline wrasse 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
- ニセモチノウオ
- 简体中文
- 拟唇鱼
- 繁體中文
- 六帶擬唇魚
- Español
- Lábrido de seis rayas
- Français
- Labre six-lignes
- Deutsch
- Sechsstreifen-Lippfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Bodião-de-seis-linhas
- Italiano
- Labro a sei linee
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Keling liris enam
- Русский
- Краснополосый псевдохейлин
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 — ニセモチノウオ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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