Azure demoiselle
Amazing fact
Male azure demoiselles guard their eggs and keep fresh water flowing over them.
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Male azure demoiselles guard their eggs and keep fresh water flowing over them.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Azure demoiselle
- Scientific name
- Chrysiptera hemicyanea
- Japanese name
- ロイヤルダムゼル
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Pomacentridae
- Genus
- Chrysiptera
How the Azure demoiselle lives
It is active during the day. It feeds on plankton a little above the seabed. It forms small groups among branching corals. It pairs up to breed, and its eggs stick to the surface beneath them.
FishBase ConsortiumBasic data
- Range
- Eastern Indian Ocean to western Pacific Ocean
Where the Azure demoiselle 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
- ロイヤルダムゼル
- 简体中文
- 半蓝金翅雀鲷
- 繁體中文
- 半藍刻齒雀鯛
- Deutsch
- Azur-Demoiselle
- Português (Brasil)
- Donzela-de-barriga-amarela
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Betok-biru bawah-kuning
- ไทย
- ปลาสลิดส้ม
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 — ロイヤルダムゼルChecked: 2026-11-04
- FishBase Consortium — Chrysiptera hemicyanea — Azure demoiselleChecked: 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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