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Related FAQs: Squirrelfishes 1, Squirrelfishes 2, & FAQs on: Holocentrid Identification, Holocentrid Behavior, Holocentrid Compatibility, Holocentrid Selection, Holocentrid Systems, Holocentrid Feeding, Holocentrid Disease, Holocentrid Reproduction, Pineconefishes,
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Genus Neoniphon:
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| Neoniphon opercularis (Valenciennes 1831),
the Black Squirrelfish, distinguished by the continuous hard dorsal
being black in color. Indo-Pacific, east Africa to Micronesia.
Fourteen inches maximum length. This one in the Maldives. |
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| Neoniphon sammara (Forsskal 1775), the
Sammara Soldierfish. Indo-Pacific, Red Sea to the Hawaiian Islands.
To about a foot long. An occasional import. The first one in
Hawaii, then the Cooks, last in the Red Sea. |
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