Japanese whiting
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Japanese whiting spawn repeatedly during their spawning season.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Japanese whiting
- Scientific name
- Sillago japonica
- Japanese name
- シロギス
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Sillaginidae
- Genus
- Sillago
It lives along the coasts of Japan from Hokkaido to Kyushu, and off the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan and China.
How the Japanese whiting lives
A study in Tateyama Bay found that feeding becomes more active from spring through early autumn. The study found that its main foods were shrimp and polychaete worms. The study found that larger males and females were more likely to have eaten shrimp.
Japanese Society for Aquaculture ResearchBasic data
- Range
- Sea of Japan and East China Sea coast from Shakotan Peninsula to southern Kyushu, Seto Inland Sea, Korea, Taiwan, China, and elsewhere
Where the Japanese whiting 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
- シロギス
- 简体中文
- 少鳞鱚
- 繁體中文
- 日本沙鮻
- 한국어
- 청보리멸
- Español
- Silago japonés
- Français
- Pêche-madame Japonais
- Português (Brasil)
- Silago-japonês
- Русский
- Японская силага
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 — シロギスChecked: 2026-11-04
- 三重県 — シロギスChecked: 2026-11-07
- Japanese Society for Aquaculture Research — Food and Feeding Habits of the Japanese Whiting, Sillago japonica, in Tateyama BayChecked: 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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