Squarespot anthias
Amazing fact
A male squarespot anthias has a purple square-shaped patch toward the front of its side.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海
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A male squarespot anthias has a purple square-shaped patch toward the front of its side.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Squarespot anthias
- Scientific name
- Pseudanthias pleurotaenia
- Japanese name
- スミレナガハナダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Serranidae
- Genus
- Pseudanthias
It lives from Japanese seas south of Suruga Bay across the eastern Indian Ocean and the Pacific.
How the Squarespot anthias lives
Juveniles live alone near shelter. Adult males and females gather above steep reef slopes swept by currents. Within a group, females live around a male.
Museums Victoria名古屋港水族館Basic data
- Range
- Pacific coast of southern Japan south of Suruga Bay, Izu Islands, Ryukyu Islands, eastern Indian Ocean to central and western Pacific
Where the Squarespot anthias 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
- スミレナガハナダイ
- 简体中文
- 侧带拟花鮨
- 繁體中文
- 側帶擬花鮨
- 한국어
- 네모점박이금강바리
- Español
- Pez marrano
- Français
- Anthias à tache carrée
- Português (Brasil)
- Anthias-de-mancha-quadrada
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Ikan gadis tompel-kotak
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 — スミレナガハナダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 名古屋港水族館 — 赤道の海【スミレナガハナダイ】Checked: 2026-11-07
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — スミレナガハナダイChecked: 2026-11-07
- Museums Victoria — Mirror Basslet, Pseudanthias pleurotaeniaChecked: 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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