Sevenstriped cardinalfish
Amazing fact
The sevenstriped cardinalfish broods its eggs inside its mouth.
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The sevenstriped cardinalfish broods its eggs inside its mouth.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Sevenstriped cardinalfish
- Scientific name
- Ostorhinchus novemfasciatus
- Japanese name
- タスジイシモチ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Kurtiformes
- Family
- Apogonidae
- Genus
- Ostorhinchus
Its body has black lengthwise bands, and the upper ones reach the rear edge of the tail fin.
It lives on coral reefs, from the Pacific coast of southern Japan to the Ryukyu Islands and across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Sevenstriped cardinalfish lives
It is active at night. It eats small crustaceans and fish. It usually swims in pairs close to shelter.
Swedish Museum of Natural History / FishBaseBasic data
- Range
- Pacific coast of southern Japan to Ryukyu Islands, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean
Where the Sevenstriped cardinalfish 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
- タスジイシモチ
- 简体中文
- 九带天竺鲷
- 繁體中文
- 九帶天竺鯛
- Português (Brasil)
- Cardeal-soldado
- Русский
- Девятиполосый апогон
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 — タスジイシモチChecked: 2026-11-04
- Swedish Museum of Natural History / FishBase — Ostorhinchus novemfasciatus, Sevenstriped cardinalfishChecked: 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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