Holocentridae

blackspot squirrelfish

Sargocentron melanospilos

Twenty Five Centimeters Holocentrid Fish of Indo Pacific

• Black
• Tropical
• Transcontinental
• Marine fish
• Indian Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Africa
• East Asia
• Oceania
• Fusiform
• Compressed cross-section
• Medium
• Tropical fish

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.