Humpback turretfish
Amazing fact
The humpback turretfish has a net-like pattern and irregular blotches on its body.
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The humpback turretfish has a net-like pattern and irregular blotches on its body.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Humpback turretfish
- Scientific name
- Tetrosomus gibbosus
- Japanese name
- ラクダハコフグ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Ostraciidae
- Genus
- Tetrosomus
It has a big spine in the middle of the hump on its back, and a spine above its eye, too.
How the Humpback turretfish lives
It eats seaweed and bottom-dwelling animals such as bristle worms, crustaceans and molluscs. In deeper offshore waters, it lives over muddy or sandy seabeds.
Museums VictoriaBasic data
- Range
- Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and central and western Pacific Ocean
Where the Humpback turretfish 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
- ラクダハコフグ
- 简体中文
- 驼背三棱箱鲀
- 繁體中文
- 駝背三棱箱魨
- Español
- Cofre Jorobado
- Français
- Coffre Bossu
- Deutsch
- Pyramiden-Kofferfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-cofre-corcunda
- Italiano
- Pesce piramide
- Русский
- Горбатый кузовок
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 — ラクダハコフグChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria — Humpback Turretfish, Tetrosomus gibbosus (Linnaeus 1758)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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