Golden damselfish
Amazing fact
Some golden damselfish have pale grey bodies with yellow pelvic, anal and tail fins.
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Some golden damselfish have pale grey bodies with yellow pelvic, anal and tail fins.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Golden damselfish
- Scientific name
- Amblyglyphidodon aureus
- Japanese name
- ヤマブキスズメダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Blenniiformes
- Family
- Pomacentridae
- Genus
- Amblyglyphidodon
A damselfish that lives from the Ryukyu Islands to the tropical seas of the eastern Indian Ocean and the Pacific.
How the Golden damselfish lives
It often lives near sea fans and sea whips on vertical reef walls. Eggs are often laid on dead branches of sea fans or on sea whips. The male stays beside the eggs and guards them until they hatch.
Museums Victoria栃木県なかがわ水遊園Basic data
- Diet
- Mainly zooplankton and algae
- Range
- Ryukyu Islands and tropical eastern Indian Ocean to central and western Pacific
Where the Golden damselfish 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
- ヤマブキスズメダイ
- 简体中文
- 黄身宽齿雀鲷
- 繁體中文
- 黃背寬刻齒雀鯛
- Français
- Demoiselle dorée
- Deutsch
- Goldener Riffbarsch
- Português (Brasil)
- Donzela-amarela-do-Pacífico
- Italiano
- Damigella dorata
- العربية
- جولدن دامسل
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Betok kenari
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 — ヤマブキスズメダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 栃木県なかがわ水遊園 — ヤマブキスズメダイChecked: 2026-11-07
- Museums Victoria — Fishes of Australia — Golden Damsel, Amblyglyphidodon aureusChecked: 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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