Sammara squirrelfish

Neoniphon sammara

Fish
IUCN: Least concern

Usual depth1–18 m
Water temperature-1–30 °C
Best monthsAugust, September, and October
How commonOccasional

About this species

Neoniphon sammara, the sammara squirrelfish, also known as the blood-spot squirrelfish, slender squirrelfish, spotfin squirrelfish, armed squirrel-fish or javelin squirrelfish, is a species squirrelfish found in Indo-Pacific.

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Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 46 records
February: 84 records
March: 83 records
April: 198 records
May: 91 records
June: 81 records
July: 222 records
August: 274 records
September: 345 records
October: 316 records
November: 45 records
December: 42 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 1–18 m · Deepest record: 116 m

0–10 m: 1,090 records
10–20 m: 403 records
20–30 m: 142 records
30–40 m: 0 records
40–50 m: 3 records
50–60 m: 0 records
60–70 m: 0 records
70–80 m: 0 records
80–90 m: 0 records
90–100 m: 0 records
100–110 m: 0 records
110–120 m: 1 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of -1–30 °C

-2–0 °C: 1 records
0–2 °C: 0 records
2–4 °C: 0 records
4–6 °C: 0 records
6–8 °C: 0 records
8–10 °C: 0 records
10–12 °C: 0 records
12–14 °C: 0 records
14–16 °C: 0 records
16–18 °C: 0 records
18–20 °C: 0 records
20–22 °C: 0 records
22–24 °C: 26 records
24–26 °C: 109 records
26–28 °C: 94 records
28–30 °C: 219 records

Names and classification

English: Sammara squirrelfish, Armed Squirrel-fish, Blood-spot Squirrel-fish, Blood-spot Squirrelfish, Bloodspot Squirrelfish, Javelin Squirrel-fish, lonchin soldierfish, sammara squirrelfish, sam soldier, Slender Squirrelfish, sporfin squirrelfish, Spot-fin Squirrelfish, Spotfin Squirrelfish, Spotfin Squirrelfish, Sammara squirrelfish

Names in 5 more languages

German: Blutfleck-Husar
Spanish: Candil Samara, Carajuelo delgado
French: Écureuil Tacheté, Marignan tacheté, Poisson-écureuil tachet, Poisson-écureuil tacheté
Japanese: Ukeguchiittodai, ウケグチイットウダイ
Simplified Chinese: 瀾公妾, 莎姆新东洋鳂, 莎姆新東洋金鱗魚, 莎姆新東洋鰃, 莎姆金鱗魚, 金鱗甲, 鐵甲, 鐵甲兵, 鐵線婆

Other scientific names: Flammeo sammara, Holocentrum sammana, Holocentrum sammara, Holocentrus rubrofuscus, Holocentrus sammara, Kutaflammeo sammara, Labrus angulosus, Neoniphon hasta, Sciaena sammara

Similar species

Black squirrelfish
Neoniphon opercularis
Blackfin Squirrelfish
Neoniphon argenteus
Bigscale soldierfish
Myripristis berndti
Brick Soldierfish
Myripristis amaena
Pearly soldierfish
Myripristis kuntee
Shadowfin soldierfish
Myripristis adusta

Sources and credits

Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).

Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
3,979 open-data records from 1775 to 2023.

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