Crown squirrelfish
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The crown squirrelfish has silvery-white stripes along its red body.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Crown squirrelfish
- Scientific name
- Sargocentron diadema
- Japanese name
- ニジエビス
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Beryciformes
- Family
- Holocentridae
- Genus
- Sargocentron
It lives from the Ogasawara and Ryukyu Islands and southern Taiwan across the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, including the Red Sea.
It looks very much like the samurai squirrelfish, but the white band on its dorsal fin stops partway.
How the Crown squirrelfish lives
At night, it feeds in open sandy areas. It eats bristle worms, small crustaceans and bivalve molluscs. During the day, it shelters in crevices and beneath rocky ledges. It lives in small groups on shallow coral reefs and similar habitats.
Museums VictoriaBasic data
- Range
- Ogasawara Islands, Minamitorishima, Ryukyu Islands, southern Taiwan, and the Indo-Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Crown squirrelfish has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ニジエビス
- 简体中文
- 黑鳍棘鳞鱼
- 繁體中文
- 黑鰭棘鱗魚
- Français
- Écureuil de Mer
- Deutsch
- Diademhusar
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-esquilo-coroado
- Italiano
- Pesce scoiattolo coronato
- Русский
- Адиорикс-диадема
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — ニジエビスChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria — Fishes of Australia — Crown Squirrelfish, Sargocentron diademaChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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