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An illustration based on the real animal.
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Devil stingers are used as offerings when people pray.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Devil stinger
- Scientific name
- Inimicus japonicus
- Japanese name
- オニオコゼ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Family
- Scorpaenidae
- Genus
- Inimicus
A fish living on sandy and muddy sea bottoms off Japan from Aomori to Kyushu, the Korean Peninsula, China and Taiwan.
Basic data
- Size
- Body length: about 30 cm
- Range
- Aomori to southern Kyushu, Seto Inland Sea, Ogasawara Islands, western and southern Korean Peninsula, China, Taiwan, and elsewhere
Where the Devil stinger 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
- オニオコゼ
- 简体中文
- 日本鬼鲉
- 繁體中文
- 日本鬼鮋
- 한국어
- 쑤기미
- Русский
- Японская бородавчатка
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 — オニオコゼ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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