FB-3251 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3251 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Holocentriformes Holocentridae Neoniphon Neoniphon vexillarium (Poey, 1860) Black-barred squirrel fish Blackbarred squirrelfish Dusky squirrelfish Dusky Squirrelfish Miss darlington Welchman Candil manchado Carajuelo Carajuelo oscuro Matajuelo Skandèlchi 旗鰭棘鱗魚 旗鳍棘鳞鱼 Adioryx vexillarius (Poey, 1860) Holocentrum vexillarium Poey, 1860 Holocentrus vexillarius Poey, 1860 Sargocentron vexillarium (Poey, 1860) Sargocentron vexillarius (Poey, 1860) 1991-05-01 2014-09-24 Randall, J.E.0 Caribbean reef fishes. T.F.H. Publications, Inc. Ltd., The British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. 318 p. (Ref. 32) Randall, J.E.0 Food habits of reef fishes of the West Indies. Stud. Trop. Oceanogr. Miami 5:665-847. (Ref. 33) ASIH (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists)0 Ontogeny and systematics of fishes. 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McGlinn and …0 FishShapes v1: Functionally relevant measurements of teleost shape and size on three dimensions. Ecology 103(e3829):1-2. (Ref. 137577) FB-pic-3251-2576 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage image/jpeg John E. Randall 1995-01-17 2010-07-13 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Image can be freely copied and altered but may be used only for non-commercial purposes. Original author and source must be properly acknowledged WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3251 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#DiagnosticDescription http://www.fishbase.us/images/species/Savex_u0.jpg http://www.fishbase.us/images/thumbnails/jpg/tn_Savex_u0.jpg FB-pic-3251-2655 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage image/jpeg John E. Randall 1995-01-18 2002-09-29 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Image can be freely copied and altered but may be used only for non-commercial purposes. Original author and source must be properly acknowledged WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3251 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Morphology http://www.fishbase.us/images/species/Savex_u1.jpg http://www.fishbase.us/images/thumbnails/jpg/tn_Savex_u1.jpg FB-GeneralDescr-3251 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1991-05-01 00:00:00 2014-09-24 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3251 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution Inhabits inshore reefs and tide pools. Hides in small recesses. Common, but rarely seen (Ref. 9710). Nocturnal species (Ref. 26938). Intertidal observations were also reported (Ref. 49162). Randall, J.E. 1983 Caribbean reef fishes.Revised Edition. T.F.H. Publications, Inc. Ltd., Hong Kong. 2nd ed. 350 p. (Ref. 5221) FB-DiagnosticDescr-3251 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Arlene G. Sampang-Reyes 2001-03-08 00:00:00 2005-01-24 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3251 Upper profile angular. Mouth small, lower jaw fitting into upper. Lower opercular spine longer and stronger than upper. Axil of pectoral dark, jet black in small specimens, dusky brown in large (Ref. 37108). Head and nape clear bright red. Body with alternating streaks of red and white (Ref. 37108). Cohen, D.M., A.W. Ebeling, T. Iwamoto, S.B. McDowell, N.B. Marshall, D.E. Rosen, P. Sonoda, W.H. Weed III and L.P. Woods 1973 Fishes of the western North Atlantic. Part six. New Haven, Sears Found. Mar. Res., Yale Univ. (Ref. 37108) FB-Morphology-3251 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Arlene G. Sampang-Reyes 2001-03-08 00:00:00 2005-01-24 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3251 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size Dorsal spines (total): 11; Dorsal soft rays (total): 13; Analspines: 4; Analsoft rays: 9 Cohen, D.M., A.W. Ebeling, T. Iwamoto, S.B. McDowell, N.B. Marshall, D.E. Rosen, P. Sonoda, W.H. Weed III and L.P. Woods 1973 Fishes of the western North Atlantic. Part six. New Haven, Sears Found. Mar. Res., Yale Univ. 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