Japanese armorhead
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The Japanese armorhead has a triangular head and a small mouth.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Japanese armorhead
- Scientific name
- Pentaceros japonicus
- Japanese name
- ツボダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Pentacerotidae
- Genus
- Pentaceros
How the Japanese armorhead lives
It lives on underwater mountains. It eats crustaceans, squid and their relatives, and small fish.
NausicaáMonterey Bay AquariumBasic data
- Range
- Ogasawara Islands, East China Sea, Jeju Island, Taiwan, Emperor Seamounts, Hawaiian Islands, and elsewhere
Where the Japanese armorhead 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
- ツボダイ
- 简体中文
- 五棘帆鱼
- 繁體中文
- 日本五棘鯛
- 한국어
- 사자구
- Português (Brasil)
- Espartano-japonês
- Русский
- Японская рыба-кабан
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 — ツボダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 海遊館 — ツボダイChecked: 2026-11-07
- Monterey Bay Aquarium — Japanese armorheadChecked: 2026-11-07
- Nausicaá — Japanese armorheadChecked: 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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