Redcoat Squirrelfish

Scientific Name: Sargocentron rubrum
Family: Squirrelfishes - Holocentridae
Maximum Size: 27cm
Identification: Alternating reddish brown and white stripes; often dark streak on tail base and on bases of rear dorsal and anal fins.
Favourite: Solitary or form small groups.
Hide-out: Frequently on silty reefs and wrecks in lagoons, bays and harbors to 84m.
Location: Indo-Asian Pacific - Red Sea and E. Africa to S.W. Japan, south to Australia, New Caledonia and Vanuatu.

Peppered Squirrelfish

Scientific Name: Sargocentron punctatissimum
Family: Squirrelfishes - Holocentridae
Maximum Size: 20cm
Identification: Pink gradating to silvery belly with fine spotting and indistinct stripes; spiny dorsal fin with white tips, red border and row of white spots below.
Favourite: Solitary or form groups.
Hide-out: Tide pools, reef flats and sub-tidal reefs to 30m.
Location: Indo-Pacific - Red sea and E. Africa to Hawaii and Easter I. in southeastern Pacific. S. Japan to Australia.

Dwarf Squirrelfish

Scientific Name: Sargocentron iota
Family: Squirrelfishes - Holocentridae
Maximum Size: 8cm
Identification: Red without distinctive markings; tail lobes rounded, scales with serrated edges.
Favourite: Solitary and cryptic; lurk in caves and recesses.
Hide-out: Steep outer reef slopes to 34m.
Location: Indo-West Pacific - Christmas I. to Indonesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Fiji and Hawaii.