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Orange-spotted filefish

Amazing fact

Male orange-spotted filefish have white spots on the black membrane on their belly.

市立しものせき水族館 海響館
Orange-spotted filefish in its habitat (illustration)

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Male orange-spotted filefish have white spots on the black membrane on their belly.

Source市立しものせき水族館 海響館 — テングカワハギ

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THE REAL WORLD

The real Orange-spotted filefish

Scientific name
Oxymonacanthus longirostris
Japanese name
テングカワハギ
Group
Ocean animals
Order
Tetraodontiformes
Family
Monacanthidae
Genus
Oxymonacanthus
Facts about the real animal.
01

Its body is bright green with eye-catching yellow mottled markings.

鳥羽水族館 — テングカワハギ
02

It lives around corals and eats coral polyps with its thin, pointed mouth.

鳥羽水族館 — テングカワハギ
03

It lives from the seas south of Wakayama to the Indian Ocean and western Pacific.

鳥羽水族館 — テングカワハギ

How the Orange-spotted filefish lives

Young fish often form small schools. Adults often swim in pairs among coral branches. It also eats plankton drifting in the water.

沖縄美ら海水族館

Basic data

Diet
Coral polyps
Range
South of Wakayama Prefecture and the Indo-West Pacific
鳥羽水族館

Where the Orange-spotted filefish has been recorded

World map with dots where the Orange-spotted filefish has been recorded
Each dot marks a place with observations or specimens shared on GBIF. Some records are of animals that strayed or were brought by people, so the dots are not always where the animal lives.

Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF

Where it livesJapanWorld oceansCoral reefs

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Names around the world

简体中文
尖吻鲀
繁體中文
尖吻單棘魨
Italiano
Pesce lima
Bahasa Indonesia
Sonang jagungan

Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.

Sources and how we check

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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