Zebra dartfish
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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The zebra dartfish has a fleshy barbel on its chin.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Zebra dartfish
- Scientific name
- Ptereleotris zebra
- Japanese name
- ゼブラハゼ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Ptereleotridae
- Genus
- Ptereleotris
It lives from Hachijojima, the Ogasawara Islands, the Izu Peninsula and the Ryukyus to Taiwan and across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Zebra dartfish lives
It swims in midwater, away from the bottom. When startled, it quickly hides in gaps in coral or rocks.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Basic data
- Range
- Hachijo Island, Ogasawara Islands, Kanagawa, Izu Peninsula, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, and Indo-Pacific
Where the Zebra dartfish 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
- ゼブラハゼ
- 简体中文
- 斑马鳍塘鳢
- 繁體中文
- 斑馬凹尾塘鱧
- Français
- Poisson-fléchette zébré
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-dardo-zebra
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 — ゼブラハゼChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — ゼブラハゼChecked: 2026-11-07
- Australian Museum — Zebra Dartgoby, Ptereleotris zebra (Fowler, 1938)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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