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title: "Barred Rabbitfish"
description: "Siganus doliatus — Vissen. Siganus doliatus, commonly known as the barred spinefoot, scribbled rabbitfish, pencil-streaked rabbitfish, barred Spanish mackerel, blue-lined rabbitfish or two-barred rabbitfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a rabbitfish belonging to the family Siganidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/barred-rabbitfish
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Barred Rabbitfish

> Siganus doliatus — Vissen. Siganus doliatus, commonly known as the barred spinefoot, scribbled rabbitfish, pencil-streaked rabbitfish, barred Spanish mackerel,  blue-lined rabbitfish or two-barred rabbitfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a rabbitfish belonging to the family Siganidae.

- Scientific name: *Siganus doliatus*
- Category: `fish` (Vissen)
- Habitats: `sea` (Zee en kust)
- iNaturalist observations: 1555
- Wikidata: [Q2527402](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2527402)
- iNaturalist taxon: [180396](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/180396)

## Names

- en: Barred Rabbitfish
- de: Blaustreifen-Kaninchenfisch
- fr: Sigan barré

## Countries with the most observations

AU (568), NC (179), FJ (152), ID (100), PW (28), SB (10), TO (7), FM (6), PG (6), VU (6)

## Summary

Siganus doliatus, commonly known as the barred spinefoot, scribbled rabbitfish, pencil-streaked rabbitfish, barred Spanish mackerel,  blue-lined rabbitfish or two-barred rabbitfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a rabbitfish belonging to the family Siganidae. It is native to the western Pacific Ocean where it occurs on reefs and in lagoons.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siganus_doliatus

## Photo

![Barred Rabbitfish](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/barred-rabbitfish/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/191861578

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/barred-rabbitfish?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).