Miniata grouper
Amazing fact
The miniata grouper hides on the seabed to ambush its prey.
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The miniata grouper hides on the seabed to ambush its prey.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Miniata grouper
- Scientific name
- Cephalopholis miniata
- Japanese name
- ユカタハタ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Serranidae
- Genus
- Cephalopholis
A fish found from the Pacific coast of southern Japan and the Ryukyu Islands to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Miniata grouper lives
It feeds mainly in the early morning and midafternoon. It mainly eats small fish and also eats crustaceans such as shrimp and crabs. A dominant male and females form a group. The group's home is divided into smaller territories, each defended by a female.
Florida Museum of Natural HistoryBasic data
- Range
- Pacific coast of southern Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Izu and Ogasawara islands, and Indo-Pacific
Where the Miniata grouper 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
- ユカタハタ
- 简体中文
- 青星九棘鲈
- 繁體中文
- 青星九刺鮨
- Español
- Cherna estrellada
- Français
- Mérou corail
- Deutsch
- Juwelen-Zackenbarsch
- Português (Brasil)
- Garoupa-de-coral
- Italiano
- Cernia dei coralli
- العربية
- Hamour
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá mú đỏ
- Русский
- Коралловая гаррупа
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 — ユカタハタChecked: 2026-11-04
- Florida Museum of Natural History — Coral HindChecked: 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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