Armorclad rockfish
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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The armorclad rockfish has small brown spots on its pelvic fins.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Armorclad rockfish
- Scientific name
- Sebastes hubbsi
- Japanese name
- ヨロイメバル
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Family
- Sebastidae
- Genus
- Sebastes
It lives along Japan's Pacific and Sea of Japan coasts and in the Seto Inland Sea, and along the coasts of China and Korea.
How the Armorclad rockfish lives
It lives on rocky shores. It eats small animals.
三重県Basic data
- Range
- Pacific coast from Tsugaru Strait to Mie, western Kyushu, Osaka Bay, Seto Inland Sea, China, and Korean Peninsula, and elsewhere
Where the Armorclad rockfish 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
- ヨロイメバル
- 简体中文
- 铠平鲉
- 繁體中文
- 鎧平鮋
- 한국어
- 우럭볼락
- Português (Brasil)
- Cantarilho-prego
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 — ヨロイメバルChecked: 2026-11-04
- 三重県 — ヨロイメバル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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