Yellow hawkfish
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The yellow hawkfish can change from female to male to reproduce.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Yellow hawkfish
- Scientific name
- Cirrhitichthys aureus
- Japanese name
- オキゴンベ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Centrarchiformes
- Family
- Cirrhitidae
- Genus
- Cirrhitichthys
A fish that lives in the seas around Honshu to Kyushu, and around Jeju Island, Taiwan, southern China, the Philippines and elsewhere.
It lives along rock walls in fairly deep water, and also on muddy bottoms inside calm bays sheltered from waves.
How the Yellow hawkfish lives
Its eggs are round, colorless and transparent, and float separately in the water. In newly hatched young, a large yolk extends beyond the tip of the snout.
日本魚類学会Basic data
- Range
- Yakushima, Jeju Island, Taiwan, Philippine Islands, Bali, and elsewhere
Where the Yellow hawkfish 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
- オキゴンベ
- 简体中文
- 金䱵
- 繁體中文
- 金䱵
- 한국어
- 노랑가시돔
- Español
- Halcón dorado
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-falcão-amarelo
- Русский
- Золотистый цирритихт
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 — オキゴンベChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — オキゴンベChecked: 2026-11-07
- 日本魚類学会 — 水槽内におけるオキゴンベの産卵と卵・仔魚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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