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Coral trout eat more food in winter.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Coral trout
- Scientific name
- Plectropomus leopardus
- Japanese name
- スジアラ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Serranidae
- Genus
- Plectropomus
It lives from southern Japan's Pacific coast and the Ryukyus to the tropical eastern Indian Ocean and central and western Pacific.
How the Coral trout lives
Young fish eat a higher proportion of bottom-dwelling prawns. As they grow, their food becomes almost entirely adult fish. They live swimming along the outer edges of coral reefs.
James Cook University沖縄美ら海水族館Basic data
- Range
- Pacific coast of southern Japan, Izu Oshima, Ryukyu Islands, and tropical eastern Indian to central and western Pacific oceans
Where the Coral trout 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
- スジアラ
- 简体中文
- 鳃棘鲈
- 繁體中文
- 花斑刺鰓鮨
- 한국어
- 무늬바리
- Español
- Mero Celestial
- Français
- Saumonée Léopard
- Deutsch
- Leopard-Forellenbarsch
- Português (Brasil)
- Garoupa-leopardo-vermelho
- Italiano
- Cernia dei coralli leopardo
- العربية
- ناجل
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Kerapu sunuk
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá song da báo
- Русский
- Пятнистый сендеронг
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 — スジアラChecked: 2026-11-04
- James Cook University — Feeding ecology of the coral trout, Plectropomus leopardus (Serranidae), on the Great Barrier Reef, AustraliaChecked: 2026-11-07
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — スジアラ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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