Oblong rockfish
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The oblong rockfish is also called "Moio" in the Toba area.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Oblong rockfish
- Scientific name
- Sebastes oblongus
- Japanese name
- タケノコメバル
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Family
- Sebastidae
- Genus
- Sebastes
It lives along the coasts from Hokkaido to Kyushu and in the Seto Inland Sea, and on the south and east coasts of Korea.
Basic data
- Range
- Sea of Japan and East China Sea coast from Hokkaido to Nagasaki, Seto Inland Sea, Tosa Bay, and Korean Peninsula, and elsewhere
- Conservation status in Japan
- Near Threatened (NT)Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)
Where the Oblong rockfish 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
- タケノコメバル
- 简体中文
- 椭圆平鲉
- 繁體中文
- 橢圓平鮋
- 한국어
- 황점볼락
- Português (Brasil)
- Cantarilho-oblongo
- Русский
- Удлинённый окунь
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 — タケノコメバルChecked: 2026-11-04
- Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)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.
The conservation status in Japan is the category in the Red Lists of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, which assess the risk of extinction for wild animals in Japan.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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