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The whitetongue jack is also sold salted or dried.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Whitetongue jack
- Scientific name
- Uraspis helvola
- Japanese name
- オキアジ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Carangiformes
- Family
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Uraspis
Adults live near sandy bottoms around offshore coral reefs, continental coasts and islands.
Basic data
- Active
- At night (nocturnal)
- Range
- Izu to Ogasawara Islands, Seto Inland Sea, southern Kuril Islands, Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, Red Sea, and elsewhere
Where the Whitetongue jack 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
- オキアジ
- 简体中文
- 白舌尾甲鲹
- 繁體中文
- 白舌尾甲鰺
- 한국어
- 민전갱이
- Español
- Jurel Lengua Blanca
- Français
- Carangue à Bouche Blanche
- Português (Brasil)
- Cara-de-gato
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Sagai
- Русский
- Белоязычный ураспис
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 — オキアジ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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