Spotstripe snapper
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All of the spotstripe snapper's fins are yellow.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Spotstripe snapper
- Scientific name
- Lutjanus ophuysenii
- Japanese name
- ヨコスジフエダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Lutjaniformes
- Family
- Lutjanidae
- Genus
- Lutjanus
A fish of Japanese seas from Niigata and Chiba to Kyushu, and of the southern Korean Peninsula, Taiwan and the coast of southern China.
How the Spotstripe snapper lives
It swims around actively. It eats small fish and crustaceans. It lives on rocky reefs near shore and the sandy areas around them.
公益財団法人 環日本海環境協力センターBasic data
- Range
- Niigata to northern and western Kyushu, Tateyama Bay to southern Kyushu, the Seto Inland Sea, southern Korea, Taiwan, and elsewhere
Where the Spotstripe snapper 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
- ヨコスジフエダイ
- 简体中文
- 奥氏笛鲷
- 繁體中文
- 奧氏笛鯛
- Español
- Pargo rayado oriental
- Português (Brasil)
- Caranha-japonesa
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 — ヨコスジフエダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 公益財団法人 環日本海環境協力センター — ヨコスジフエダイ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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