Lamarck's angelfish
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
Lamarck's angelfish do not always breed with the same partner.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Lamarck's angelfish
- Scientific name
- Genicanthus lamarck
- Japanese name
- タテジマヤッコ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Pomacanthidae
- Genus
- Genicanthus
It lives from Hachijojima, Yakushima, the Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan across a wide area of the western Pacific.
Basic data
- Range
- Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, Indo-Malayan waters to the western Pacific (except New Caledonia and Fiji), and elsewhere
Where the Lamarck's angelfish 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
- タテジマヤッコ
- 简体中文
- 月蝶鱼
- 繁體中文
- 頰刺魚
- Español
- Pez ángel de Lamarck
- Deutsch
- Lamarcks Lyrakaiserfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-anjo-de-Lamarck
- Italiano
- Pesce angelo di Lamarck
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 — タテジマヤッコChecked: 2026-11-04
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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