Description: Body silvery red, with orangish gold body stripes. Eyes large. Rear dorsal fin pronounced and sticking up. Anal fin with a strongly elongated third spine. Size up to 18 cm. Juveniles are thin, silvery pelagics and seldom seen.
Habitat: Hide in or near dark recesses. Rare on shallow reefs, becoming more abundant with depth, most abundant between 30 and 70 m.
Distribution: Occasional south Florida, Bahamas and Caribbean.
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Superclass Pisces Class Osteichthyes Family Holocentridae Genus Neoniphon Species Neoniphon marianus
Humann, P., 1989. Reef Fish Identification - Florida Caribbean Bahamas, (ed. N. Deloach). New World Publications, Inc., Paramount Miller Graphics, Inc., Jacksonville, Florida.
Nagelkerken, W., 1980. Coral Reef Fishes of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao. Published by the Island Territory of Curacao.
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