Redbreast wrasse
Amazing fact
Male redbreast wrasses have elongated tips on the upper and lower parts of the tail fin.
鴨川シーワールド
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Male redbreast wrasses have elongated tips on the upper and lower parts of the tail fin.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Redbreast wrasse
- Scientific name
- Cheilinus fasciatus
- Japanese name
- ヤシャベラ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Labriformes
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Cheilinus
Where the name “Redbreast wrasse” comes from
The scientific name fasciatus comes from Latin and means banded.
Museums VictoriaA fish that lives from southern Japanese islands such as Amami Oshima and Okinawa across a wide area of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Redbreast wrasse lives
It lives on sheltered reefs where coral, sand and rubble are mixed. It mainly eats small hard-shelled animals such as molluscs, crustaceans and sea urchins.
Museums VictoriaBasic data
- Range
- Southern Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific, excluding areas east of Hawaii, the Line Islands, and Society Islands, and elsewhere
Where the Redbreast 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
- ヤシャベラ
- 简体中文
- 横带唇鱼
- 繁體中文
- 橫帶唇魚
- Español
- Vieja florida
- Français
- Galame rouge
- Deutsch
- Rotbrust-Prachtlippfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Bodião-de-colarinho-vermelho
- Italiano
- Tordo golarossa
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Dean-dean
- Русский
- Краснозобый губан
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 — ヤシャベラChecked: 2026-11-04
- 鴨川シーワールド — ヤシャベラChecked: 2026-11-07
- Museums Victoria — Redbreast Maori Wrasse, Cheilinus fasciatus (Bloch 1791)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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