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Holocentridae
sammara squirrelfish
Neoniphon sammara
Holocentrid Fish beneath Japanese Waters
sammara squirrelfish is a marine fish of Indo-Pacific. The species occupies reef habitat. The largest recorded length is 32 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Holocentridae
- Genus
- Neoniphon
- Maximum length
- 32 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: Red Sea and East Africa to the Marquesan and Ducie islands, north to southern Japan, the Ogasawara and Hawaiian islands, south to northern Australia and Lord Howe Island.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

