Yellowfin scorpionfish
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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The yellowfin scorpionfish has a saw-edged bony ridge above its eye.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Yellowfin scorpionfish
- Scientific name
- Scorpaenopsis neglecta
- Japanese name
- サツマカサゴ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Family
- Scorpaenidae
- Genus
- Scorpaenopsis
It lives from Japan's Pacific coast to the Philippines, Indonesia, western Australia and Sri Lanka.
How the Yellowfin scorpionfish lives
It lives alone on sandy and muddy ground near reefs. Its body color varies, and it blends into the background.
Museums Victoria沖縄美ら海水族館Basic data
- Range
- Osaka Bay, Yakushima, Amami Oshima, Okinawa Islands, Taiwan, South China Sea coast, and Philippine Islands, and elsewhere
Where the Yellowfin scorpionfish 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
- サツマカサゴ
- 简体中文
- 斑鳍石狗公
- 繁體中文
- 魔擬鮋
- Italiano
- Scorfano pinna gialla
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 — サツマカサゴChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — サツマカサゴChecked: 2026-11-07
- Museums Victoria — Yellowfin Scorpionfish, Scorpaenopsis neglecta Heckel 1837Checked: 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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