Yellowstriped Squirrelfish, Neoniphon aurolineatus (Liénard 1839)

Other Names: Goldlined Squirrelfish, Gold-lined Squirrelfish, Yellow-striped Squirrelfish

Summary:

A silvery-pink Neoniphon with yellow stripes along the sides, an orange-red bar across the top of the head and gill cover, a large orange-red spot at the front of the dorsal fin, a yellow pectoral-fin base, and white tips on the dorsal fin spines.

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Bray, D.J. 2020, Neoniphon aurolineatus in Fishes of Australia, accessed 13 Sep 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/4443

Yellowstriped Squirrelfish, Neoniphon aurolineatus (Liénard 1839)

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Distribution	Northern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, and Holmes Reef in the Coral Sea. Elsewhere the species is widespread in the tropical Indo-west-central Pacific. Inhabits caves and crevices on deep outer reef slopes, at depths to 160 m.
Features	Dorsal fin XI,12-14; Anal fin IV,8-9; Pectoral fin 13-15; Lateral line scales 42-47; Scales above lateral line to base of middle dorsal spines 3½; Oblique rows of cheek scales 5; Gill-rakers 5-7 + 11-13; Body depth 3.9-3.3 in SL; head length 2.8-3.1 in SL; lower jaw strongly projecting; dorsal profile of snout nearly straight with a break in contour above eye to a less sloping, nearly straight profile of rest of head; anterior end of nasal bone rounded; nasal fossa large, without spinules on margin; preopercular spine short, about 1/3 orbit diameter. Longest dorsal-fin spine 1.4-1.6 in HL; last dorsal-fin spine shortest, much closer to first soft-ray than to penultimate spine; third anal-fin spine 1.4-1.6 in HL.
Colour	Silvery pink with yellow stripes following scale rows; head silvery pink with an orange-red spot above posterior part of orbit and a broad orange-red bar passing from top of head across opercle; a faint, broad, light orange-red band from orbit to corner of preopercle. A large orange-red spot covering most of first 2 interspinous membranes of dorsal fin; tips of spinous dorsal membranes white, as well as anterior part of each membrane posterior to third spine; rest of interspinous membranes a mixture of red and yellow; remaining fins pale red (Heemstra & Randall, 1985).
Species Citation	Holocentrum aurolineatum Liénard 1839, Rapport Annuel sur les Travaux de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Ile Maurice 10: 32. Type locality: Mauritius.
Author	Bray, D.J. 2020
Resources	Atlas of Living Australia Australian Faunal Directory Catalog of Fishes

Yellowstriped Squirrelfish, Neoniphon aurolineatus (Liénard 1839)

References

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Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth : Tropical Reef Research 3 vols, 1260 pp.

Jordan, D.S. & Evermann, B.W. 1903. Descriptions of new genera and species of fishes from the Hawaiian Islands. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 22: 161-208 (described as Flammeo scythrops)

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Liénard, R.P. 1839. Poissons. Rapport Annuel sur les Travaux de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Ile Maurice 10: 31-47

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Randall, J.E. & Heemstra, P.C. 1985. A review of the squirrelfishes of the subfamily Holocentrinae from the western Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute, Grahamstown 49: 1-27 See ref online

Williams, I. & Greenfield, D. 2016. Neoniphon aurolineatus (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T67871203A115438329. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T67871203A67871870.en. Downloaded on 11 March 2020.