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Squirrel- & Soldierfishes, Family Holocentridae, Part 3

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Genus Neoniphon

Neoniphon marianus (Cuvier 1829), the Longjaw Squirrelfish. Tropical West Atlantic. To seven inches in length. Distinctive yellow body lines. This one in Jamaica.

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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.

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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