Goldenstriped soapfish
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The goldenstriped soapfish swallows prey whole with its large mouth.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Goldenstriped soapfish
- Scientific name
- Grammistes sexlineatus
- Japanese name
- ヌノサラシ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Serranidae
- Genus
- Grammistes
A fish that lives from Japanese waters such as Sagami Bay, Wakayama and the Ryukyu Islands to Taiwan and across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
When it senses danger, it protects itself by giving off a foamy, slimy poison called grammistin from its skin.
How the Goldenstriped soapfish lives
It lives without forming groups around coral reefs and in places such as holes in rocky reefs. It catches and eats small fish and crustaceans. When young, it has pale yellow stripes. Adults have white lines or broken-line markings on their bodies.
粟国村（粟国アーカイブス）沖縄美ら海水族館新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Basic data
- Range
- Ryukyu Islands, Izu Islands, Ogasawara Islands, southern Taiwan, Paracel Islands, Spratly Islands, the Indo-Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Goldenstriped soapfish 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
- ヌノサラシ
- 简体中文
- 六带线纹鱼
- 繁體中文
- 六線黑鱸
- Español
- Pez jabón de seis líneas
- Français
- Poisson-savon bagnard
- Deutsch
- Sechsstreifen-Seifenbarsch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-sabão-de-linhas-douradas
- Русский
- Шестиполосый граммистес
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 — ヌノサラシChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — ヌノサラシChecked: 2026-11-07
- 粟国村（粟国アーカイブス） — ヌノサラシ（ぬのさらし）Checked: 2026-11-07
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — ヌノサラシ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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