Spottedtail morwong
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Young spottedtail morwong can be found in tide pools.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Spottedtail morwong
- Scientific name
- Cheilodactylus zonatus
- Japanese name
- タカノハダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Centrarchiformes
- Family
- Cheilodactylidae
- Genus
- Cheilodactylus
It is also listed under the scientific name Goniistius zonatus.
It lives along Japan's coasts from the Tsugaru Strait to southern Kyushu, in the Seto Inland Sea, and in Taiwan, southern Korea and Hong Kong.
It has slanting brown bands on its sides and many round white spots on its tail fin.
Basic data
- Range
- The Seto Inland Sea, Amami Oshima, Kikaijima, Tokunoshima, Izu Islands, Ogasawara Islands, Okinawa Island, Taiwan, and elsewhere
Where the Spottedtail morwong 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
- 鳥羽水族館 — タカノハダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 八丈植物公園・八丈ビジターセンター — タカノハダイ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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