Rickard Zerpe, Schweden
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Sargocentron melanospilos (Bleeker, 1858)
In addition to the countries and seas mentioned above, the black-spotted hussar is also found around Zanzibar (Tanzania), Aldabra, the Marshall Islands northeast of Australia, American Samoa, south of autonomous Samoa, north to Taiwan, southern Japan, the Ogasawara Islands south of Japan, south to the Great Barrier Reef and the Chesterfield Islands in the Coral Sea, which belongs to the South Pacific.In the Red Sea it is replaced by the very similar Argocentron marisrubri.
This hussar can be easily recognized by the black spots on the dorsal, caudal, anal and pectoral fins that give it its name.The abdomen is silver-grey in color, the back area is orange-reddish, the head area is marked with a clearly darker red.
This fish is very rarely found during the day, hiding between large stony coral branches and in holes and crevices in coral reefs.It only comes out of its hiding places in the evening and goes hunting for various invertebrates and smaller fish, which it catches with its undersized mouth.
fishbase: Venomous (Spine of preopercle venomous)
Synonymised names
Holocentrum melanospilos Bleeker, 1858 · unaccepted
Sargocentron melanospilus (Bleeker, 1858) · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
In addition to the countries and seas mentioned above, the black-spotted hussar is also found around Zanzibar (Tanzania), Aldabra, the Marshall Islands northeast of Australia, American Samoa, south of autonomous Samoa, north to Taiwan, southern Japan, the Ogasawara Islands south of Japan, south to the Great Barrier Reef and the Chesterfield Islands in the Coral Sea, which belongs to the South Pacific.In the Red Sea it is replaced by the very similar Argocentron marisrubri.
This hussar can be easily recognized by the black spots on the dorsal, caudal, anal and pectoral fins that give it its name.The abdomen is silver-grey in color, the back area is orange-reddish, the head area is marked with a clearly darker red.
This fish is very rarely found during the day, hiding between large stony coral branches and in holes and crevices in coral reefs.It only comes out of its hiding places in the evening and goes hunting for various invertebrates and smaller fish, which it catches with its undersized mouth.
fishbase: Venomous (Spine of preopercle venomous)
Synonymised names
Holocentrum melanospilos Bleeker, 1858 · unaccepted
Sargocentron melanospilus (Bleeker, 1858) · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
