Longfin batfish
Amazing fact
Longfin batfish along the Sea of Japan coast from Niigata to Nagasaki are almost all juveniles.
鳥羽水族館
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Longfin batfish along the Sea of Japan coast from Niigata to Nagasaki are almost all juveniles.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Longfin batfish
- Scientific name
- Platax teira
- Japanese name
- ツバメウオ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Ephippiformes
- Family
- Ephippidae
- Genus
- Platax
Basic data
- Range
- Yakushima, Ryukyu Islands, Ogasawara Islands, southern Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, the Indo-West Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Longfin batfish 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
- ツバメウオ
- 简体中文
- 尖翅燕鱼
- 繁體中文
- 尖翅燕魚
- 한국어
- 깃털제비활치
- Español
- Pez murciélago teira
- Français
- Platax à longues nageoires
- Deutsch
- Langflossen-Fledermausfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-bumerangue-bandeira
- Italiano
- Pesce pipistrello a coda lunga
- العربية
- سمك الخفاش منقط البطن
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Buna biasa
- Русский
- Длинноплавниковый платакс
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 — ツバメウオ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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