Weedy stingfish
Amazing fact
The weedy stingfish blends into its surroundings with its body color and skin flaps.
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The weedy stingfish blends into its surroundings with its body color and skin flaps.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Weedy stingfish
- Scientific name
- Scorpaenopsis cirrosa
- Japanese name
- オニカサゴ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Family
- Scorpaenidae
- Genus
- Scorpaenopsis
It lives along Japan's Pacific and Sea of Japan coasts and on to Jeju Island, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
How the Weedy stingfish lives
It lives among corals, on rocky reefs, and in surrounding areas of loose stones. It eats small animals.
宇久井ビジターセンター三重県Basic data
- Range
- Izu Islands, Yakushima, Tokara Islands, Jeju Island, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and elsewhere
Where the Weedy stingfish 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
- オニカサゴ
- 简体中文
- 须拟鲉
- 繁體中文
- 鬚擬鮋
- ไทย
- ปลาแมงป่องขน
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 — オニカサゴChecked: 2026-11-04
- 三重県 — オニカサゴChecked: 2026-11-07
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — オニカサゴ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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