Dwarf hawkfish
Amazing fact
The dwarf hawkfish can change from female to male.
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The dwarf hawkfish can change from female to male.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Dwarf hawkfish
- Scientific name
- Cirrhitichthys falco
- Japanese name
- サラサゴンベ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Centrarchiformes
- Family
- Cirrhitidae
- Genus
- Cirrhitichthys
Where the name “Dwarf hawkfish” comes from
The scientific name falco comes from Latin for falcon or hawk.
Museums Victoria / Fishes of AustraliaA fish that lives from the Pacific coast and southern islands of Japan across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
It looks like a fish called himegonbe, but it has lines running down at a slant from its eye.
How the Dwarf hawkfish lives
It often perches on or within coral heads. It mainly eats small crustaceans. It spawns in the water column at night.
Museums Victoria / Fishes of Australia沖縄美ら海水族館Basic data
- Range
- Pacific coast of southern Japan, Hachijojima, Ryukyu Islands, Ogasawara Islands, and Indo-Pacific
Where the Dwarf hawkfish 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
- サラサゴンベ
- 简体中文
- 真丝金䱵
- 繁體中文
- 鷹金䱵
- Español
- Halcon de coral
- Français
- Épervier Nain
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-falcão-do-coral
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 — サラサゴンベChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — サラサゴンベChecked: 2026-11-07
- Museums Victoria / Fishes of Australia — Dwarf Hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys falco Randall 1963Checked: 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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