Banded Irish lord
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The banded Irish lord has fan-shaped pectoral fins.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Banded Irish lord
- Scientific name
- Hemilepidotus gilberti
- Japanese name
- ヨコスジカジカ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Cottidae
- Genus
- Hemilepidotus
It lives in the seas around Hokkaido and off Iwate, Fukushima and Ibaraki, and off Korea, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands and the Kamchatka Peninsula.
How the Banded Irish lord lives
It eats crustaceans, marine worms and other animals on the seabed. It is often found in deeper water in winter than in summer. In Peter the Great Bay, it spawns from spring through summer.
Музей ННЦМБ ДВО РАНBasic data
- Range
- Hokkaido, the central eastern Korean Peninsula, Primorsky Krai, the Strait of Tartary, southern Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and elsewhere
Where the Banded Irish lord 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
- ヨコスジカジカ
- 简体中文
- 吉氏杂鳞杜父鱼
- 繁體中文
- 吉氏雜鱗杜父魚
- 한국어
- 동갈횟대
- Русский
- Бычок получешуйный
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 — ヨコスジカジカChecked: 2026-11-04
- Музей ННЦМБ ДВО РАН — Получешуйник ГильбертаChecked: 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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