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Genus Myripristis:
| Myripristis adusta Bleeker 1853, the
Shadowfin Soldierfish. Widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific. To
fourteen inches in length in the wild. Occasionally caught and sold
for aquarium use. A more nocturnal species. These ones in Fiji in
the Pacific and the Maldives, Indian Ocean. |
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| Myripristis amaena (Castelnau 1873), the
Brick Soldierfish. West-Central Pacific; Indonesia, Philippines to
Hawaii. To about ten inches in length. Monterey Bay Aquarium
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| Myripristis berndti Jordan & Evermann
1903, the Blotcheye Soldierfish. Indo-Pacific, including eastern
Pacific in distribution. To one foot maximum length. Best from
Hawai'i. |
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| Myripristis jacobus Cuvier 1829, the
Blackbar Soldierfish. Tropical West Atlantic. To ten inches maximum
length. These images shot in the Bahamas. 15-60 feet. |
 
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| Myripristis kuntee Valenciennes 1831,
Shoulder-bar Soldierfish. Indo-Pacific; East Africa to Hawai'i.
Two to 55 meters. To eight inches total length. Reef-associated.
Leading part of spiny dorsal fin yellowish. One off of Queensland,
Australia, another off Hawa'i's Big Island. |
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| Myripristis leiognathus, the
Panamic Soldierfish. Cortez to Ecuador, TEP; to 7 inches. Here in Puerto
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| Myripristis murdjan (Forsskal 1775), the
Pinecone Soldierfish. Indo-Pacific through Oceania. Characterized by white
edges on the unpaired and pelvic fin edges and brown margin on the gill
cover. To one foot total length. This one photographed in the upper Red Sea
where it is caught for the European hobby. |
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| Myripristis violacea
Bleeker 1851, the Latticework Soldierfish. Indo-Pacific, to nine
inches in length. A good-looking smaller species that ought to be
more used in the aquarium interest. This one in Fiji. |
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| Myripristis vittata Valenciennes 1831, the
Whitetip Soldierfish. Indo-Pacific. To ten inches long. Another
under-utilized species available in good numbers. Like most
Soldierfishes, feeds on motile invertebrates at night. Maldives and
QLD, Australia specimens. |
 
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