Joyner stingfish
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The Joyner stingfish gives birth to live young rather than laying eggs.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Joyner stingfish
- Scientific name
- Sebastes joyneri
- Japanese name
- トゴットメバル
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Family
- Sebastidae
- Genus
- Sebastes
Where the name “Joyner stingfish” comes from
The scientific name "joyneri" honors the British engineer Joyner.
FishBaseIt lives along the coasts from Hakodate in Hokkaido to Kyushu, and around Taiwan and Guangdong in China.
How the Joyner stingfish lives
It is a bottom-dwelling marine fish.
FishBaseBasic data
- Range
- Hakodate, Sea of Japan coast from Aomori to northwestern Kyushu, Ulleungdo, Taiwan, and Guangdong, and elsewhere
Where the Joyner stingfish 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
- トゴットメバル
- 简体中文
- 焦氏平鲉
- 繁體中文
- 焦氏平鮋
- 한국어
- 도화볼락
- Português (Brasil)
- Cantarilho-costeiro
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 — トゴットメバルChecked: 2026-11-04
- FishBase — Sebastes joyneriChecked: 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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