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Holocentridae
squirrelfish
Holocentrus adscensionis
Consumption may cause ciguatera poisoning
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Africa
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South America
- Fusiform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Fusiform
Largesquirrelfish is known from Western Central Atlantic as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Holocentridae
- Genus
- Holocentrus
- Maximum length
- 61 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Central Atlantic: North Carolina, USA and Bermuda to Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico and throughout the West Indies and Caribbean shores (Ref. 3724 ). Eastern Central Atlantic: Sao Tome Island and Gabon to Angola (Ref. 51178 ) and St. Paul's Rocks, St. Helena and Ascension Island (Ref. 6537 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
