Swallowtail hawkfish
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The swallowtail hawkfish has a deeply crescent-shaped tail fin.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Swallowtail hawkfish
- Scientific name
- Cyprinocirrhites polyactis
- Japanese name
- ウイゴンベ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Centrarchiformes
- Family
- Cirrhitidae
- Genus
- Cyprinocirrhites
It lives on shallow rocky reefs and is found along the Pacific coast of Japan from Chiba to Tosa Bay, and in places such as Taiwan, Bali and Australia.
Basic data
- Range
- Taiwan, western and eastern Australia, New Caledonia, northern New Zealand, Madagascar, and elsewhere
Where the Swallowtail hawkfish 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
- ウイゴンベ
- 简体中文
- 长鳍鲤䱵
- 繁體中文
- 多棘鯉䱵
- Español
- Halcón cola de golondrina
- Français
- Cirrhite à Nombreux Rayons
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-falcão-cauda-de-lira
- Русский
- Циприноциррит
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 — ウイゴンベChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria — Lyretail Hawkfish, Cyprinocirrhites polyactis (Bleeker 1875)Checked: 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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