Sixbar wrasse
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The sixbar wrasse has prominent fang-like teeth in its small mouth.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Sixbar wrasse
- Scientific name
- Thalassoma hardwicke
- Japanese name
- セナスジベラ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Labriformes
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Thalassoma
Where the name “Sixbar wrasse” comes from
Its scientific name honours a person named Thomas Hardwicke.
Museums VictoriaIt lives from southern Japanese seas such as the Izu, Ogasawara and Ryukyu Islands to Taiwan and across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Sixbar wrasse lives
It lives in shallow lagoons and on reefs facing the open sea. It eats small fish, crustaceans and fish eggs, among other foods. It often travels in schools.
Museums VictoriaTetiaroa SocietyBasic data
- Range
- Izu Islands, Ogasawara Islands, Ryukyu Islands, southern Taiwan, and Indo-Pacific excluding Hawaii and Marquesas Islands, and elsewhere
Where the Sixbar wrasse 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
- セナスジベラ
- 简体中文
- 哈氏锦鱼
- 繁體中文
- 哈氏錦魚
- Español
- Señorita de Seis Barras
- Français
- Girelle paon de Hardwicke
- Deutsch
- Hardwicks Lippfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Bodião-de-seis-faixas
- Italiano
- Donzella a sei barre
- Русский
- Чернополосая талассома
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 — セナスジベラChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria — Fishes of Australia — Sixbar Wrasse, Thalassoma hardwickeChecked: 2026-11-07
- 国立科学博物館 — Thalassoma hardwicke — Sixbar WrasseChecked: 2026-11-07
- Tetiaroa Society — Sixbar WrasseChecked: 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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