White trevally
Amazing fact
Young white trevally blow water from their mouths to stir up sand and eat animals living in it.
東京都島しょ農林水産総合センター
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Young white trevally blow water from their mouths to stir up sand and eat animals living in it.
THE REAL WORLD
The real White trevally
- Scientific name
- Pseudocaranx dentex
- Japanese name
- シマアジ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Carangiformes
- Family
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Pseudocaranx
It lives in seas around Japan and Taiwan, and widely in temperate seas around the world.
How the White trevally lives
Around the Boso Peninsula, young fish appear in groups in coves and around islets in early summer. At fish reefs, they feed together on small fish and tiny crustaceans called mysids. In the Ogasawara Islands, they start laying eggs as the water cools. The eggs float separately in the water.
鴨川シーワールド東京都島しょ農林水産総合センターBasic data
- Range
- Izu Islands, Taiwan, temperate waters worldwide except the eastern Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the White trevally 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
- シマアジ
- 简体中文
- 黄带拟鲹
- 繁體中文
- 黃帶擬鰺
- 한국어
- 흑점줄전갱이
- Español
- Jurel Dentón
- Français
- Carangue dentue
- Deutsch
- Gelbflossen-Stachelmakrele
- Português (Brasil)
- Encharéu
- Italiano
- Carango dentice
- Русский
- Зубатый каранкс
- Türkçe
- Yalancı Sinarit
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 — シマアジChecked: 2026-11-04
- 鴨川シーワールド — Vol.79 ～シマアジの幼魚～Checked: 2026-11-07
- 東京都島しょ農林水産総合センター — シマアジ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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