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Longjaw Squirrelfish
Neoniphon marianus (Cuvier, 1829)
Also calledCandil (spa) · Candil mamey (spa) · Cardinal, Poisson-écureuil longue épine (fra) · Peix esquirol caribeny (cat) · Peixe-esquilo-de-mandíbula-longa (por) · Poisson-écureuil longue épine (fra) · carajuelo mariano (spa) · pruhatec dlouhočelistný (ces) · Кандиль-мариан (rus) · Пламенщик-мариан (rus)
Neoniphon marianus, also known as the longjaw squirrelfish, is a species of squirrelfish found in the Western Atlantic Ocean from the Florida Keys south to Trinidad and throughout the Caribbean Sea. It lives near reefs at depths between 1 and 70 metres (3.3 and 229.7 ft), usually between 30 and 60 metres (98 and 197 ft), and can reach sizes of up to 18.0 centimetres (7.1 in) TL. It is nocturnal and consumes mostly shrimps, but will also eat crabs.
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Every page naming Neoniphon marianus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5204754.