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Spotfin Squirrelfish - Neoniphon sammara The Spotfin Squirrelfish - Neoniphon sammara is silvery with thin dark red to blackish stripes; reddish spiny dorsal fin with large black spot at front, white spine tips and white spots along base. Bali,Fish,Geotagged,Indonesia,Neoniphon sammara,Padang Bai,Sammara squirrelfish,Spring,Squirrelfish Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Spotfin Squirrelfish - Neoniphon sammara

The Spotfin Squirrelfish - Neoniphon sammara is silvery with thin dark red to blackish stripes; reddish spiny dorsal fin with large black spot at front, white spine tips and white spots along base.

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''Neoniphon sammara'', also known as the sammara squirrelfish, the blood-spot squirrelfish, the spotfin squirrelfish, the armed squirrel-fish, and the javelin squirrelfish, is a species squirrelfish found in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean from East Africa to the Hawaiian Islands. It feeds on shrimps and small crabs and fish at night and can grow up to 32.0 centimetres TL in length, though its common length is only 23.0 centimetres TL. Like ''N. opercularis'', it has a venomous spine on its preopercle.

Similar species: Holocentriformes
Species identified by Albert Kang
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By Albert Kang

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Uploaded Oct 19, 2017. Captured Oct 13, 2017 15:17 in Jl. Silayukti, Padangbai, Manggis, Kabupaten Karangasem, Bali 80871, Indonesia.
  • TG-5
  • f/5.6
  • 1/160s
  • ISO320
  • 13.47mm