''Monocentris'' is a

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pinecone fish Pinecone fishes are small and unusual marine fish of the family ''Monocentridae''. The family contains just four species in two genera, one of which is monotypic. Their distribution is limited to tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-Pacif ...

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Species

There are currently four recognized species in this genus: * ''

Monocentris chrysadamas ''Monocentris'' is a genus of pinecone fishes native to the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Species There are currently four recognized species in this genus: * ''Monocentris chrysadamas'' (Yo Su, Hsiu-Chin Lin, and Hsuan-Ching Ho, 2022 ...

'' (Yo Su, Hsiu-Chin Lin, and Hsuan-Ching Ho, 2022) - diamond pineconefish * ''

Monocentris japonica ''Monocentris japonica'', the Japanese pineapplefish, is a pinecone fish of the family Monocentridae, found in the tropical Indo-West Pacific Oceans, at depths between 2 and 100 m and can be found on both rocky and coral reefs. The fish is noc ...

'' ( Houttuyn, 1782) - Japanese pineapplefish * ''

Monocentris neozelanicus ''Monocentris'' is a genus of pinecone fishes native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Species There are currently four recognized species in this genus: * ''Monocentris chrysadamas'' (Yo Su, Hsiu-Chin Lin, and Hsuan-Ching Ho, 2022) - diamond pi ...

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, 1938) - Maori pineconefish * ''

Monocentris reedi ''Monocentris reedi'' is a species of ray-finned fish within the family Monocentridae. The species is found in the southeastern Pacific near Chile off the Juan Fernández Islands, Nazca Ridge and the Desventuradas Islands, where it lives a demersa ...

'' ( L. P. Schultz, 1956) - Reed's pineconefish

References

Monocentridae Marine fish genera Taxa named by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider Taxa named by Marcus Elieser Bloch {{Beryciformes-stub