Sunset wrasse
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
Young sunset wrasses also live around Nomozaki in Nagasaki.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Sunset wrasse
- Scientific name
- Thalassoma lutescens
- Japanese name
- ヤマブキベラ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Labriformes
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Thalassoma
It lives from southern Japanese seas such as the Izu and Ryukyu Islands to Taiwan and across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
In its female phase its whole body is golden yellow, and blue bands appear as it grows.
Basic data
- Range
- Izu Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, Indo-Pacific excluding the Hawaiian Islands and Easter Island, and elsewhere
Where the Sunset wrasse 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
- ヤマブキベラ
- 简体中文
- 胸斑锦鱼
- 繁體中文
- 胸斑錦魚
- Español
- Señorita del Atardecer
- Français
- Girelle-paon jaune
- Deutsch
- Gelbbrauner Lippfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Bodião-solar
- Italiano
- Donzella gialla
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 — ヤマブキベラ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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