Holocentridae

East indian soldierfish

Myripristis trachyacron

Holocentrid Fish beneath the Indian Ocean

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• Oceania
• Southeast Asia
• Fusiform
• Compressed cross-section
• Medium
• Tropical fish

Myripristis trachyacron, the East Indian soldierfish, is a small, rare, poorly-understood species of soldierfish belonging to the genus Myripristis. It can be found in the Western Pacific Ocean in Indonesia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. It swims in small aggregations in current prone channels, at moderate slopes.