{"id":3543,"date":"2023-06-10T09:37:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T00:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sushiuniversity.jp\/basicknowledge\/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&p=3543"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:54:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:54:46","slug":"spotnape-ponyfish-hiiragi","status":"publish","type":"jetpack-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/sushiuniversity.jp\/basicknowledge\/spotnape-ponyfish-hiiragi\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotnape ponyfish (Hiiragi)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The appearance of Spotnape ponyfish (Hiiragi)<\/p><\/div>\n

Common name: Spotnape ponyfish, Silver ponyfish, Slimy, Soapy<\/span><\/p>\n

Japanese name: Hiiragi<\/span> (\u67ca\u3001\u67ca\u9b5a)<\/span><\/p>\n

Taiwan common name: \u9805\u6591\u9805\u9c0f\u3001\u91d1\u9322\u4ed4\u3001\u5175\u8449\u4ed4 (\u6f8e\u6e56)\u3001\u65b9\u8449\u4ed4 (\u6f8e\u6e56)<\/span><\/p>\n

Chinese common name: \u9888\u6591\u9879\u9c0f<\/span><\/p>\n

Korean common name: \uc8fc\ub465\uce58<\/span><\/p>\n

Scientific name: Nuchequula nuchalis (Temminck and Schlegel,1845)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Nigiri sushi detail:\u00a0Spotnape ponyfish (Hiiragi) Nigiri sushi<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Characteristics:<\/span><\/p>\n

Spotnape ponyfish (Hiiragi) is distributed south of central Honshu, southern Korea, Taiwan, and the coast of China, excluding the Ryukyu Islands. It inhabits sandy muddy areas from shallow water in inner bays to brackish water in estuaries. The body color is silvery white with black spots on the back of the head and the anterior portion of the dorsal spine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Japanese whiting (Kisu) anglers can catch them mixed in with other Japanese whiting. However, we have not heard of spotnape ponyfish (Hiiragi) fishing, so it may be that they are not caught in large numbers. Because the bones are hard and the flesh is thin, it takes a lot of effort to eat them, but they are delicious when made into nigiri sushi. It is not available at sushi restaurants in Tokyo, but it can be found at local sushi restaurants.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Common name: Spotnape ponyfish, Silver ponyfish, Slimy, Soapy Japanese name: Hiiragi (\u67ca\u3001\u67ca\u9b5a) Taiwan common name: \u9805\u6591\u9805\u9c0f\u3001\u91d1\u9322\u4ed4\u3001\u5175\u8449\u4ed4 (\u6f8e\u6e56)\u3001\u65b9\u8449\u4ed4 (\u6f8e\u6e56) Chinese common name: \u9888\u6591\u9879\u9c0f Korean common name: \uc8fc\ub465\uce58 Scientific name: Nuchequula nuchalis (Temminck and Schlegel,1845) Nigiri sushi detail:\u00a0Spotnape ponyfish (Hiiragi) Nigiri sushi Characteristics: Spotnape ponyfish (Hiiragi) is distributed south of central Honshu, southern Korea, Taiwan, and the coast of China, excluding the Ryukyu Islands. It inhabits sandy muddy areas from shallow water in inner bays to brackish water in estuaries. The body color is silvery white with black spots on the back of the head and the anterior portion of the dorsal spine. Japanese whiting (Kisu) anglers can catch them mixed in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"jetpack-portfolio-type":[166],"jetpack-portfolio-tag":[20],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sushiuniversity.jp\/basicknowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/3543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sushiuniversity.jp\/basicknowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sushiuniversity.jp\/basicknowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jetpack-portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sushiuniversity.jp\/basicknowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sushiuniversity.jp\/basicknowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3543"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sushiuniversity.jp\/basicknowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/3543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7820,"href":"https:\/\/sushiuniversity.jp\/basicknowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/3543\/revisions\/7820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sushiuniversity.jp\/basicknowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sushiuniversity.jp\/basicknowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sushiuniversity.jp\/basicknowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio-type?post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sushiuniversity.jp\/basicknowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio-tag?post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}