Sixbar angelfish
Amazing fact
In danger, the sixbar angelfish retreats into a rock hole and makes a loud warning sound.
沖縄美ら海水族館
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In danger, the sixbar angelfish retreats into a rock hole and makes a loud warning sound.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Sixbar angelfish
- Scientific name
- Pomacanthus sexstriatus
- Japanese name
- ロクセンヤッコ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Pomacanthidae
- Genus
- Pomacanthus
It lives on coral reefs from the Ryukyus south of Amami Oshima to the eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific.
How the Sixbar angelfish lives
It eats sponges and sea squirts. Adults sometimes live alone in areas with rich coral growth. Young fish are usually found on inner reefs.
Museums Victoria / Fishes of AustraliaBasic data
- Size
- Total length: about 40–50 cm
- Range
- Ryukyu Islands south of Amami Oshima, Taiwan, eastern Indian and western Pacific oceans excluding Fiji, and elsewhere
Where the Sixbar angelfish 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
- ロクセンヤッコ
- 简体中文
- 六带刺盖鱼
- 繁體中文
- 六帶蓋刺魚
- Español
- Ángel de seis bandas
- Français
- Poisson ange
- Deutsch
- Sechsbinden-Kaiserfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-anjo-de-seis-listras
- Italiano
- Pesce angelo a barra bianca
- Русский
- Шестиполосый ангел
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 — ロクセンヤッコChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — ロクセンヤッコChecked: 2026-11-07
- Museums Victoria / Fishes of Australia — Sixband Angelfish, Pomacanthus sexstriatus (Cuvier 1831)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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