Yellow-tipped squirrelfish (Sargocentron seychellense) fish species and information / pictures of Yellow-tipped squirrelfish - Sargocentron seychellense

Yellow-tipped squirrelfish (Sargocentron seychellense) fish species information

Scientific Name
Sargocentron seychellense

Common Name
Yellow-tipped squirrelfish

Biology
Dorsal spines (total): 11; Dorsal soft rays (total): 12-14; Anal spines: 4; Anal soft rays: 8 - 10. Body with about equal stripes of brownish red and silvery white; spinous dorsal mostly white, membrane tips yellow, basal part of fin red except base of first two membranes which are whitish (Ref. 4201). Five oblique scale rows on cheek; body depth 2.4-2.65 in SL; head length (HL) 2.55-2.9 in SL; short and blunt snout, its length 4.15-4.6 in HL; interorbital width 4.5-5.2 in HL; mouth terminal, maxilla usually extending posterior to center of eye, upper jaw length 2.2-2.45 in HL; premaxillary groove nearly or just reaching a vertical at front edge of orbit; anterior end of nasal bone with a blunt spine; surface or medial edge of nasal bone spineless; nasal fossa without spinules; upper edge of 1st suborbital bones with a row of recumbent spinules, the 1st (slightly posterior to a vertical at front edge of orbit) is the largest and most lateral; preopercular spine usually

Classification

Classified By

Smith & Smith, 1963

Class

Ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)

Order

Sawbellies (Beryciformes)

Family

Squirrelfishes, soldierfishes (Holocentridae)

Distribution

Region

Western Indian Ocean

Distribution

Western Indian Ocean: Oman (Ref. 11441), Seychelles, Mauritius, Reunion (Ref. 33390), Comoros (Ref. 27370), Madagascar, Chagos Archipelago, and St. Brandon Shoals.

Range

Unknown

Environment

Climate

Tropical

Water Temperature From

Unknown °C

Water Temperature To

Unknown °C

Depth From - meters

2 m

Depth To - meters

6 m

Zone

reef-associated

Environment

Marine; reef-associated; depth range 2 - 6 m (Ref. 27370)

Trophic Level

3.58 s.e. 0.59 Based on size and trophs of closest relatives

Occurs in Marine / Salt water

True

Occurs in Brackish water

False

Occurs in Fresh Water

False

Occurs on Reefs

True

Is kept in Aquariums

False

Physical Size and Genetics

Maximum Length

27.0 cm

Common Length

Unknown cm

Phylogenetic Diversity Index

PD50 = 0.5000 many relatives (e.g. carps) 0.5 - 2.0 few relatives (e.g. lungfishes)

Human Uses and Population

Human Uses

Unknown

Vulnerability

Low vulnerability (22 of 100)

Resilience

High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.)

Threat To Humans

  Harmless

IUCN Red List Status

  Not Evaluated