Largehead hairtail
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
The largehead hairtail's flesh comes away from its bones easily.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Largehead hairtail
- Scientific name
- Trichiurus japonicus
- Japanese name
- タチウオ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Scombriformes
- Family
- Trichiuridae
- Genus
- Trichiurus
Its Japanese name comes from its sword-like (tachi) body and its habit of swimming upright.
It is caught mostly in the Seto Inland Sea and around Kyushu. In the Sea of Japan, the waters off Niigata are the northern edge of where it lives.
Basic data
- Range
- Sea of Japan
Where the Largehead hairtail 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
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 新潟県 — 7月の旬 タチウオChecked: 2026-11-03
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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