Description

Dorsal spines (total): 11; Dorsal soft rays (total): 12 - 13; Anal spines: 4; Anal soft rays: 9; Vertebrae: 27. Light brown in color when preserved; color in life unknown. Five oblique scale rows on cheek; body depth 2.55 in SL; head length (HL) 2.5-2.55 in SL; lower jaw slightly projecting; pointed snout, its length 4.2 (4.15) in HL; orbit diameter 3.0 (2.85); least interorbital width 5.7 in HL; anterior end of nasal bone rounded; nasal bone spineless, including premaxillary groove; large nasal fossa without spinules; preopercular spine 2/3 orbit diameter; longest dorsal spine 2.4 in HL; 3rd anal spine 1.5-1.55 in HL (Ref. 27370).

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Holocentriformes

Family: Holocentridae

Genus: Sargocentron

Species: Sargocentron shimizui Randall, 1998

Climate Zone

Biology

Known only from 2 specimens taken with dynamite in Sulawesi in 1909 (Ref. 27370).

Habitat

associated

Conservation Status

Not Evaluated

Threat to Humans

Harmless