Half-smooth golden pufferfish
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The half-smooth golden pufferfish has a white belly, unlike its back.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Half-smooth golden pufferfish
- Scientific name
- Lagocephalus spadiceus
- Japanese name
- シロサバフグ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Tetraodontidae
- Genus
- Lagocephalus
A fish of the seas from Hokkaido to Kyushu, and around the Korean Peninsula, China, Taiwan, the Philippines and nearby.
Basic data
- Range
- Pacific coast from Hokkaido to southern Kyushu, Seto Inland Sea, East China Sea, Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, South China Sea, and elsewhere
Where the Half-smooth golden pufferfish 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
- シロサバフグ
- 简体中文
- 棕斑兔头鲀
- 繁體中文
- 棕斑兔頭魨
- 한국어
- 은밀복
- Français
- Tétraodon-lièvre Doré
- Português (Brasil)
- Baiacu-verde-dourado
- Italiano
- Pesce palla dorato
- العربية
- فهقة ذهبية نصف ملساء
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá nóc vàng
- Türkçe
- Balon
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 — シロサバフグChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — シロサバフグ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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