Striated surgeonfish
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Striated surgeonfish have fine blue lines on their brown body, dorsal fin and anal fin.
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Striated surgeonfish have fine blue lines on their brown body, dorsal fin and anal fin.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Striated surgeonfish
- Scientific name
- Ctenochaetus striatus
- Japanese name
- サザナミハギ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Acanthuridae
- Genus
- Ctenochaetus
Where the name “Striated surgeonfish” comes from
The genus name combines Greek words for comb and hair or bristles, referring to the teeth.
Australian MuseumA fish that lives from Hachijojima, the Ogasawara Islands and the Ryukyu Islands to Taiwan and across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Striated surgeonfish lives
It lives on coral reefs, nearby rocky reefs and in sheltered bays. It mainly eats algae, but also animal food and bits of dead organisms.
粟国村Basic data
- Range
- Ogasawara, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, Indo-Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Striated surgeonfish 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
- サザナミハギ
- 简体中文
- 涟纹栉齿刺尾鱼
- 繁體中文
- 漣紋櫛齒刺尾鯛
- Español
- Cirujano estriado
- Français
- Chirurgien Noir
- Português (Brasil)
- Cirurgião-estriado
- Italiano
- Pesce chirurgo striato
- العربية
- Juneh
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Botana lurik
- Русский
- Полосатый ктенохет
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 — サザナミハギChecked: 2026-11-04
- Australian Museum — Lined Bristletooth, Ctenochaetus striatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)Checked: 2026-11-07
- 粟国村 — 粟国アーカイブス — サザナミハギ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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