Sebastes cheni
Amazing fact
Shiromebaru rockfish give birth to young that hatch from eggs inside the mother.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海
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Shiromebaru rockfish give birth to young that hatch from eggs inside the mother.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Sebastes cheni
- Scientific name
- Sebastes cheni
- Japanese name
- シロメバル
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Family
- Sebastidae
- Genus
- Sebastes
It lives along Japan's Sea of Japan and Pacific coasts and in the Seto Inland Sea, and on the east coast of Korea.
The bands on its back and sides are dark brown, and its belly side is a whitish gold.
Basic data
- Range
- Sea of Japan and East China Sea from Aomori to western Kyushu, Pacific coast of Tohoku, Seto Inland Sea, eastern Korea, and elsewhere
Where the Sebastes cheni 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
- シロメバル
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 — シロメバルChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — シロメバル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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