Goldtail demoiselle
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Male goldtail demoiselles guard their eggs and fan water over them.
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Male goldtail demoiselles guard their eggs and fan water over them.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Goldtail demoiselle
- Scientific name
- Chrysiptera parasema
- Japanese name
- シリキルリスズメダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Pomacentridae
- Genus
- Chrysiptera
Where the name “Goldtail demoiselle” comes from
The genus name combines Greek words for gold and fin or wing.
Quantitative Aquatics, Inc. (FishBase)How the Goldtail demoiselle lives
This fish is active during the day. It eats tiny drifting animals and algae. It forms groups around patches of branching Acropora corals. Its eggs stick to surfaces on the seabed.
Quantitative Aquatics, Inc. (FishBase)ユアエルム海の広場（エルム水族館）Basic data
- Range
- Ryukyu Islands and western Pacific
Where the Goldtail demoiselle 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
- シリキルリスズメダイ
- 简体中文
- 副刻齿雀鲷
- 繁體中文
- 副刻齒雀鯛
- Español
- Damisela de cola amarilla
- Français
- Demoiselle à queue dorée
- Deutsch
- Gelbschwanz-Demoiselle
- Português (Brasil)
- Donzela-azul-de-cauda-amarela
- Italiano
- Damigella coda dorata
- العربية
- جولدتيل ديمويزل
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Betok biru bintang
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 — シリキルリスズメダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- ユアエルム海の広場（エルム水族館） — シリキルリスズメダイChecked: 2026-11-07
- Quantitative Aquatics, Inc. (FishBase) — Chrysiptera parasema, Goldtail demoiselleChecked: 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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