Blackspot goatfish
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
Blackspot goatfish also live in the seas around Australia and Tonga.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Blackspot goatfish
- Scientific name
- Parupeneus spilurus
- Japanese name
- オキナヒメジ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Mulliformes
- Family
- Mullidae
- Genus
- Parupeneus
Basic data
- Range
- Hachijojima, Ogasawara Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, Philippine Islands, Indonesia, and elsewhere
Where the Blackspot goatfish 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
- オキナヒメジ
- 简体中文
- 点纹副绯鲤
- 繁體中文
- 大型海緋鯉
- 한국어
- 두줄촉수
- Français
- Rouget-barbet à bandes marron
- Deutsch
- Japanische Meerbarbe
- Português (Brasil)
- Trilha-vermelho
- Italiano
- Triglia macchia nera
- Русский
- Приметная козобородка
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 — オキナヒメジ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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