''Sargocentron ittodai'', the samurai squirrelfish, is a nocturnal species of

squirrelfish Holocentrinae is a subfamily of Holocentridae containing 40 recognized species and one proposed species. Its members are typically known as squirrelfish and all are nocturnal. All three genera in the subfamily are found in the Atlantic and ''Hol ...

belonging to the genus of ''

Sargocentron ''Sargocentron'' is a genus of squirrelfish (family Holocentridae) found in tropical parts of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, with the greatest species diversity near reefs in the Indo-Pacific. Being largely or entirely nocturnal, they ...

''. It is found in the

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region, in the Red Sea and Natal, from South Africa to the

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, and north from Southern

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and the Ogasawara Islands, south to New South Wales,

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. It inhabits outer reef slopes. It can be found either solitary or in groups. It mainly feeds on benthic crabs and shrimps.

References

ittodai Fish of the Pacific Ocean Taxa named by David Starr Jordan Fish of the Indian Ocean Taxa named by Henry Weed Fowler Fish described in 1902 {{Beryciformes-stub