Freckled goatfish
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The freckled goatfish may show brown or reddish mottling, especially at night.
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The freckled goatfish may show brown or reddish mottling, especially at night.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Freckled goatfish
- Scientific name
- Upeneus tragula
- Japanese name
- ヨメヒメジ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Mulliformes
- Family
- Mullidae
- Genus
- Upeneus
It lives from the coasts of Ibaraki to Kyushu, the Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan to the Indian Ocean, including the Red Sea, and the western Pacific.
How the Freckled goatfish lives
It lives in shallow water among rubble or on sand. It may be alone or in small groups.
沖縄美ら海水族館Basic data
- Active
- At night (nocturnal)
- Range
- Hachijo Island, Seto Inland Sea, Ryukyu Islands, southern Taiwan, Hainan Island, Indo-West Pacific including Red Sea, and elsewhere
Where the Freckled goatfish 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
- ヨメヒメジ
- 简体中文
- 黑斑绯鲤
- 繁體中文
- 黑斑緋鯉
- 한국어
- 검은줄촉수
- Español
- Chivito Moteado
- Français
- Rouget à bandes sombres
- Deutsch
- Mittelstreifen-Meerbarbe
- Português (Brasil)
- Trilha-floculado
- Italiano
- Triglia lentigginosa
- العربية
- سمك الماعز المنمش
- Русский
- Чернополосая козобородка
- ไทย
- ปลาแพะลาย
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 — ヨメヒメジChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — ヨメヒメジChecked: 2026-11-07
- Museums Victoria — Bartail Goatfish, Upeneus tragula Richardson 1846Checked: 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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