Holocentridae

Pence's squirrelfish

Neoniphon pencei

Twenty Four Centimeters Holocentrid Fish

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• Oceania
• Fusiform
• Compressed cross-section
• Medium
• Tropical fish

Neoniphon pencei, or Pence's squirrelfish, is a species of squirrelfish found in the Pacific Ocean in Rarotonga, Cook Islands and Mo'orea, French Polynesia. It differs from other species of the genus Neoniphon in number of lateral line scales, scales above and below lateral line, elements of life colour, and in COI and cytochrome b DNA sequences.