Striped jewfish
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A striped jewfish’s upper jaw extends behind the middle of its eye.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Striped jewfish
- Scientific name
- Stereolepis doederleini
- Japanese name
- オオクチイシナギ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Polyprionidae
- Genus
- Stereolepis
It lives along the coasts of Japan from Hokkaido to Yakushima, and off the southern and eastern coasts of the Korean Peninsula.
It usually lives in deep water, but in the spawning season it moves up to shallower places.
How the Striped jewfish lives
When very young, these fish appear in the surf zone. As they grow, they move offshore into deeper water.
鶴岡市立加茂水族館Basic data
- Range
- Danjo Islands, Kyushu-Palau Ridge, southern and eastern Korean Peninsula, and Peter the Great Bay, and elsewhere
Where the Striped jewfish 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
- オオクチイシナギ
- 简体中文
- 多氏坚鳞鲈
- 繁體中文
- 多氏堅鱗鱸
- 한국어
- 돗돔
- Português (Brasil)
- Garoupa-de-listras-desbotadas
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 — オオクチイシナギChecked: 2026-11-04
- 鶴岡市立加茂水族館 — オオクチイシナギChecked: 2026-11-07
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — オオクチイシナギ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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