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Male scissortail sergeants guard the eggs.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Scissortail sergeant
- Scientific name
- Abudefduf sexfasciatus
- Japanese name
- ロクセンスズメダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Pomacentridae
- Genus
- Abudefduf
Where the name “Scissortail sergeant” comes from
Its Japanese name comes from the stripes on its body.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海It looks like the Indo-Pacific sergeant, but you can tell it apart by the thick black stripe on both the upper and lower lobes of its tail fin.
It lives along the Pacific coast of Japan from the Miura Peninsula southward and around the Ryukyu Islands, and widely across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Scissortail sergeant lives
It eats algae and zooplankton. It can also be seen high in the water, well above the seabed. Young fish sometimes join schools with Indo-Pacific sergeants.
Australian Museum沖縄美ら海水族館Basic data
- Range
- Hachijo Island, the Ogasawara Islands, the Ryukyu Islands, the Indo-Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Scissortail sergeant 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
- ロクセンスズメダイ
- 简体中文
- 六线豆娘鱼
- 繁體中文
- 六線豆娘魚
- 한국어
- 검은줄꼬리돔
- Français
- Sergent-major à queue en ciseaux
- Deutsch
- Scherenschwanz-Sergeant
- Português (Brasil)
- Donzela-de-seis-faixas
- Русский
- Шестиполосый абудефдуф
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 — ロクセンスズメダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- Australian Museum — Scissortail Sergeant, Abudefduf sexfasciatus (Lacepède, 1801)Checked: 2026-11-07
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — ロクセンスズメダイChecked: 2026-11-07
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — ロクセンスズメダイ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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