Striped large-eye bream

Amazing fact

The striped large-eye bream changes colour and can become quite dark.

沖縄美ら海水族館

Striped large-eye bream in its habitat (illustration)

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The striped large-eye bream changes colour and can become quite dark.

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THE REAL WORLD

The real Striped large-eye bream

Scientific name: Gnathodentex aureolineatus
Japanese name: ノコギリダイ
Group: Ocean animals

Order: Spariformes
Family: Lethrinidae
Genus: Gnathodentex

Facts about the real animal.

It lives in shallow water on rocky and coral reefs, from the Pacific coast of southern Japan and the Ryukyu and Ogasawara Islands across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

鳥羽水族館 — ノコギリダイ

It has yellow stripes along its body and a large yellow spot toward the rear of its back.

鳥羽水族館 — ノコギリダイ

Over coral reefs it forms large schools that hover in place.

鳥羽水族館 — ノコギリダイ

How the Striped large-eye bream lives

At night, it eats crabs, sea snails and other animals on the seabed. It sometimes eats small fish too.

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Basic data

Range: Pacific coast of southern Japan, Hachijojima, Ryukyu Islands, Ogasawara Islands, and the Indo-Pacific

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Where the Striped large-eye bream 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: ノコギリダイ
简体中文: 金带齿颌鲷
繁體中文: 金帶齒頜鯛
Français: Empereur strié
Deutsch: Leuchtfleck-Straßenkehrer
Português (Brasil): Imperador-de-mancha-dourada
Italiano: Orata dalla macchia dorata
Tiếng Việt: Cá hè răng đai
Русский: Желтополосый зубатый пентапод

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 — ノコギリダイChecked: 2026-11-04
鳥羽水族館 — ノコギリダイChecked: 2026-11-04
沖縄美ら海水族館 — ノコギリダイChecked: 2026-11-07
Museums Victoria and OzFishNet — Goldspot Seabream, Gnathodentex aureolineatusChecked: 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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