Pi45 Holocentrus rubrum (Red Soldier fish)
Pi45 Holocentrus rubrum (Red Soldier fish)
Phylum
: Chordata
Class :
Actinopterygii
Order :
Beryciformes
Family :
Holocentridae
Genus : Holocentrus
Species : H. rubrum
Description
Habitats:
Marine;
reef-associated; depth range 1 - 84 m
Distribution: Indo-West
Pacific: Red Sea to the western Pacific where it ranges from southern Japan to
New Caledonia, Vanuatu and New South Wales, Australia.
Morphology: Body with
subequal stripes of brownish red and silvery white; spinous dorsal dark red
with a large, quadrangular, whitish blotch in middle of each membrane (except
the first) forming a median band; dorsal membrane tips white, except posteriorly.
Five oblique scale rows on cheek; body depth 2.5-2.8 in SL; head length (HL)
2.65-2.85 in SL; short and blunt snout, its length 4.25-4.7 in HL; interorbital
width 4.5 in HL; mouth terminal to slightly inferior, maxilla usually extending
nearly to or a short distance beyond a vertical through center of eye, upper
jaw length 2.5-2.75 in HL; premaxillary groove often ending above anterior edge
of orbit; anterior end of nasal bone with a blunt spine; surface or medial edge
of nasal bone spineless; nasal fossa usually without spinules on its edge;
upper edge of 1st suborbital bone with a slightly retrorse lateral spine a
short distance posterior to a vertical at front edge of eye, followed by a
ridge of recumbent spinules; preopercular spine usually about 2/3 orbit
diameter, 3.2-5.3 in HL; 3rd-5th dorsal spines subequal, longest in adults
1.9-2.3 in HL; 3rd anal spine 1.35-1.6 in HL
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