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Holocentrinae
Temporal range: Early Eocene to present Preκž’ κž’ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Holocentrus rufus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Beryciformes
Family: Holocentridae
Subfamily: Holocentrinae
J. Richardson, 1846
Genera

Holocentrinae is a subfamily of Holocentridae containing 40 recognized species and one proposed species. Its members are typically known as squirrelfish and all are nocturnal. All three genera in the subfamily are found in the Atlantic and Holocentrus is restricted to this ocean. Most species in genera Neoniphon and Sargocentron are from the Indo-Pacific region and several of these occur in the Indian Ocean west of the southern tip of India. A fossil genus of the subfamily is Eoholocentrum from the Early Eocene of Italy.

A rare example of the fish is featured in Ian Fleming's 1960 James Bond short story "The Hildebrand Rarity".

References

  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Holocentridae". FishBase. October 2012 version.
  2. Randal, J.E. and Heemstra, P.C. 1985. "A review of the squirrelfishes of the subfamily Holocentrinae from the Western Indian Ocean and Red Sea". Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 49. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Rhodes University.
  3. Andrews, James V.; Schein, Jason P.; Friedman, Matt (2023-01-01). "An earliest Paleocene squirrelfish (Teleostei: Beryciformes: Holocentroidea) and its bearing on the timescale of holocentroid evolution". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 21 (1). doi:10.1080/14772019.2023.2168571. ISSN 1477-2019.

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Holocentrinae


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