Starry flounder
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Starry flounder found in Japan have their eyes on the left side of the body.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Starry flounder
- Scientific name
- Platichthys stellatus
- Japanese name
- ヌマガレイ
- Group
- Freshwater animals
- Order
- Pleuronectiformes
- Family
- Pleuronectidae
- Genus
- Platichthys
Where the name “Starry flounder” comes from
Its Japanese name, numagarei, means a flounder that also lives in marshes.
北海道How the Starry flounder lives
It is often found on seabeds of mud, sand or gravel. In Ishikari Bay, it spawns in shallow water near river mouths or marshes from late winter into spring.
Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife北海道Basic data
- Range
- North of Lake Nakaumi in Shimane and Kujukuri in Chiba, Korean Peninsula to southern California via the Sea of Okhotsk and Bering Sea
Where the Starry flounder 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
- ヌマガレイ
- 简体中文
- 星突江鲽
- 繁體中文
- 星突江鰈
- 한국어
- 강도다리
- Français
- Flet étoilé
- Deutsch
- Sternflunder
- Italiano
- Passera di mare stellata
- العربية
- دملوكة نجمية
- Русский
- Звёздчатая камбала
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 — ヌマガレイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 北海道 — ヌマガレイ[沼鰈]Checked: 2026-11-07
- Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife — Starry flounderChecked: 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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