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tinsel squirrelfish
Sargocentron suborbitale (Gill, 1863)
Also calledcandil sol (spa)
Sargocentron suborbitale, the tinsel squirrelfish, is a species of squirrelfish belonging to the genus Sargocentron. It can be found in the East Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California to Ecuador including the Galapagos Islands. During the day, adults of the species hide in small caves or crevices of rocks. During the night, they feed on small crustaceans in the intertidal zone. It is oviparous.
== References ==
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Tinsel Squirrelfish. To 25.4 cm (10 in) TL (Schneider and Krupp in Fischer et al. 1995). San Juanico, southern Baja California (Ruiz-Campos et al. 2010 b) and central Gulf of California (Schneider and Krupp in Fischer et al. 1995) to Ecuador (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), including southern tip of Baja California (Schneider and Krupp in Fischer et al. 1995) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 25 m (82 ft) (min.: Castellanos-Galindo 2005; max.: Robertson and Allen 2002). Widely seen as Sargocentron suborbitalis (Gill, 1863) (Fricke et al. 2020).
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 7193466.