Japanese Sweeper
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The Japanese sweeper is a fish of relatively cool waters.
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The Japanese sweeper is a fish of relatively cool waters.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Japanese Sweeper
- Scientific name
- Pempheris japonica
- Japanese name
- ツマグロハタンポ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Pempheriformes
- Family
- Pempheridae
- Genus
- Pempheris
It lives along Japan's Pacific coast and northern Kyushu to southern Korea and Taiwan.
It is nocturnal and spends the day in schools in dark spots such as holes in rocky and coral reefs.
Basic data
- Active
- At night (nocturnal)
- Range
- Hachijojima, Ogasawara Islands, southern Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, Taiwan, and elsewhere
Where the Japanese Sweeper 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
- ツマグロハタンポ
- 简体中文
- 日本拟金眼鲷
- 繁體中文
- 日本擬金眼鯛
- 한국어
- 주걱치
- Português (Brasil)
- Papudinha-japonesa
- Русский
- Японский большеглаз
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 — ツマグロハタンポChecked: 2026-11-04
- FishBase (Quantitative Aquatics, Inc.) — Pempheris japonicaChecked: 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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