Photo: Kora27 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 45 cm
- 🌊 reef slopes, caves
The sabre squirrelfish is the largest squirrelfish, red, with a large venomous spine below the eye. It hides in caverns by day.
Did you know?
In Tahitian: ʻapaʻi.
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Soldat armé.
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