Bluestripe snapper
Amazing fact
Bluestripe snappers gather in large schools around corals or sunken ships during the day.
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Bluestripe snappers gather in large schools around corals or sunken ships during the day.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Bluestripe snapper
- Scientific name
- Lutjanus kasmira
- Japanese name
- ヨスジフエダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Lutjaniformes
- Family
- Lutjanidae
- Genus
- Lutjanus
Where the name “Bluestripe snapper” comes from
The scientific name kasmira comes from an Arabic name for this fish along the Red Sea.
Museums Victoria and OzFishNetA fish of Japanese seas from Sagami Bay to Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands, and from Taiwan across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Bluestripe snapper lives
At night, it moves to nearby soft seabeds to feed. It eats fish, shrimp and crabs. It can spawn throughout the year.
U.S. Geological SurveyBasic data
- Range
- The Ogasawara Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, Dongsha Islands, Zhongsha Islands, Spratly Islands, and Indo-Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Bluestripe 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
- ヨスジフエダイ
- 简体中文
- 四带笛鲷
- 繁體中文
- 四線笛鯛
- Español
- Pargo común de rayas azules
- Français
- Vivaneau à raies bleues
- Deutsch
- Blaustreifen-Schnapper
- Português (Brasil)
- Caranha-de-linhas-azuis
- Italiano
- Lutiano
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Gorara tikus
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá hồng bốn sọc
- Русский
- Кашмирский луциан
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 — ヨスジフエダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- U.S. Geological Survey — bluestripe snapper (Lutjanus kasmira) - Species ProfileChecked: 2026-11-07
- Museums Victoria and OzFishNet — Bluestriped Snapper, Lutjanus kasmira (Forsskål 1775)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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