Flame Hawkfish

Scientific Name: Neocirrhitus armatus
Family: Hawkfishes - Cirrhitidae
Maximum Size: 9cm
Identification: Brilliant red; broad zone of black on back, also black ring around eye.
Favourite: Solitary and wary.
Hide-out: Perch among branches of Pocillopora and Stylophora branching corals. Clear seaward reefs in 1-10m.
Location: West Pacific - Philippines, Sunda Is. in Indonesia to Samoa and Phoenix Is. S.W. Japan to Great Barrier Reef.