Emperor red snapper
Amazing fact
Young emperor red snappers use the gaps between a large sea urchin’s spines as hiding places.
エルム水族館
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Young emperor red snappers use the gaps between a large sea urchin’s spines as hiding places.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Emperor red snapper
- Scientific name
- Lutjanus sebae
- Japanese name
- センネンダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Lutjaniformes
- Family
- Lutjanidae
- Genus
- Lutjanus
A fish of southern Japanese seas and the Ryukyu Islands, and of the Indian Ocean and western Pacific.
How the Emperor red snapper lives
They catch and eat small fish, crustaceans, and cephalopods. They live alone or gather with others of a similar size. They are said to move into deeper water as they grow.
エルム水族館Basic data
- Range
- Oki Islands, Ogasawara Islands, Pacific coast of southern Japan to the Ryukyu Islands, Indo-West Pacific
- Conservation status in Japan
- Near Threatened (NT)Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)
Where the Emperor red snapper 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
- センネンダイ
- 简体中文
- 川纹笛鲷
- 繁體中文
- 川紋笛鯛
- Español
- Pargo emperador rojo
- Français
- Vivaneau bourgeois
- Deutsch
- Kaiserschnapper
- Português (Brasil)
- Caranha-imperador
- العربية
- Hamrah
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Kakap gajah
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá hồng lang
- Русский
- Трёхполосый луциан
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 — センネンダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- エルム水族館 — センネンダイChecked: 2026-11-07
- Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)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.
The conservation status in Japan is the category in the Red Lists of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, which assess the risk of extinction for wild animals in Japan.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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