Sleek unicornfish
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
The sleek unicornfish mainly eats animal plankton.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Sleek unicornfish
- Scientific name
- Naso hexacanthus
- Japanese name
- テングハギモドキ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Acanthuridae
- Genus
- Naso
It lives from the Izu and Ryukyu Islands to Taiwan and across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Sleek unicornfish lives
It roams along cliffs where currents flow well.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Basic data
- Range
- Indo-Pacific, Clipperton Island, Cocos Island, and elsewhere
Where the Sleek unicornfish 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
- テングハギモドキ
- 简体中文
- 六棘鼻鱼
- 繁體中文
- 六棘鼻魚
- 한국어
- 남방표문쥐치
- Español
- Barbero Liso
- Français
- Nason Jaune
- Deutsch
- Blauschwanz-Nasendoktorfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-unicórnio-de-ventre-amarelo
- Italiano
- Pesce unicorno coda blu
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 — テングハギモドキChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — テングハギモドキChecked: 2026-11-07
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — テングハギモドキ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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