Sargocentron melanospilos, the blackbotch squirrelfish, is a species of squirrelfish in the genus of Sargocentron. It is found in the Indo-Pacific region in the Red Sea; Zanzibar, Tanzania; from Aldabra and Seychelles to the Marshall Islands and American Samoa; north to Taiwan, southern Japan and the Ogasawara Islands, and south to the southern Great Barrier Reef and the Chesterfield Islands. It is a relatively uncommon inhabitant of rocky reefs and coral-rich areas, and is usually seen solitary, but it also forms schools when in deeper water or oceanic areas.[2]
| Blackblotch squirrelfish | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Beryciformes |
| Family: | Holocentridae |
| Genus: | Sargocentron |
| Species: | S. melanospilos
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| Binomial name | |
| Sargocentron melanospilos Bleeker, 1858
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Holocentrum melanospilos Beeker,1858 | |
References
edit- ^ Williams, I. & Greenfield, D. (2015). "Sargocentron melanospilos". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015. IUCN. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
- ^ "Sargocentron melanospilos, Blackblotch Squirrelfish". www.fishbase.de. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
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