Spotted unicornfish
Amazing fact
Spotted unicornfish have dark spots on the head and lower body, and thin bars on the upper body.
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Spotted unicornfish have dark spots on the head and lower body, and thin bars on the upper body.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Spotted unicornfish
- Scientific name
- Naso brevirostris
- Japanese name
- ツマリテングハギ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Acanthuridae
- Genus
- Naso
It lives in seas around Japan and Taiwan and across the wide Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Spotted unicornfish lives
Young fish live in sheltered places. Adults live in midwater in areas exposed to the open sea.
Smithsonian Tropical Research InstituteBasic data
- Range
- Indo-Pacific, Galápagos Islands, and elsewhere
Where the Spotted 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
- ツマリテングハギ
- 简体中文
- 短吻鼻鱼
- 繁體中文
- 短吻鼻魚
- 한국어
- 큰뿔표문쥐치
- Español
- Pez unicornio de nariz corta
- Français
- Nasique
- Deutsch
- Langnasen-Nasendoktorfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Rufia manchada
- Italiano
- Pesce unicorno bruno
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 — ツマリテングハギChecked: 2026-11-04
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute — Species: Naso brevirostris, Spotted unicornfishChecked: 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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