Sargocentron melanospilus (Bleeker, 1858)

Golani, Daniel & Bogorodsky, Sergey V., 2010, 2463, Zootaxa 2463, pp. 1-135 : 63

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scientific name

Sargocentron melanospilus (Bleeker, 1858)
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All references of this species in the Red Sea ( Randall & Heemstra, 1985; Randall & Heemstra, 1986) were mistaken. This Indo-Pacific species is replaced in the Red Sea by Sargocentron marisrubri Randall, Golani & Diamant, 1989 .

Randall, J. E. & Heemstra, P. C. (1985) A review of the squirrelfishes of the subfamily Holocentrinae from the western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Ichthyological Bulletin of the J. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, 49, 1 - 29.

Randall, J. E. & Heemstra, P. C. (1986) Holocentridae. In: Smith, M. M. & Heemstra, P. C. (Eds.), Smith's Sea Fishes. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg. 415 - 427 pp.