Blackbar filefish
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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The blackbar filefish has an elongated black mark near its gill opening.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Blackbar filefish
- Scientific name
- Pervagor janthinosoma
- Japanese name
- ニシキカワハギ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Monacanthidae
- Genus
- Pervagor
It lives on coral reefs from southern Japan's Pacific coast and the Ryukyus across the Indo-Pacific.
The front of its body is blue, the back is green, and its tail fin is bright orange.
How the Blackbar filefish lives
It swims through gaps in table-shaped corals.
宇久井ビジターセンターBasic data
- Range
- Pacific coast of southern Japan, Ryukyu Islands, and the Indo-Pacific
Where the Blackbar filefish 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
- ニシキカワハギ
- 简体中文
- 前角鲀
- 繁體中文
- 紅尾前角單棘魨
- Français
- Poisson-lime à queue orange
- Deutsch
- Höhlen-Feilenfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-porco-de-orelha-manchada
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 — ニシキカワハギChecked: 2026-11-04
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — ニシキカワハギ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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