[Image]Scientific Name: Neocirrhitus armatus Family: Hawkfishes - Cirrhitidae Maximum Size: 9cm Identification: Brilliant red; broad zone of black on back, also black ring around eye. Favourite: Solitary and wary. Hide-out: Perch among branches of Pocillopora and Stylophora branching corals. Clear seaward reefs in 1-10m. Location: West Pacific - Philippines, Sunda Is. in Indonesia to Samoa and Phoenix Is. S.W. Japan to Great Barrier Reef.
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