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Genus of fishes

Monocentris

Monocentris japonica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Trachichthyiformes
Family:	Monocentridae
Genus:	Monocentris Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801

Monocentris is a genus of pinecone fishes native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Species

There are currently four recognized species in this genus:

Monocentris chrysadamas (Yo Su, Hsiu-Chin Lin, and Hsuan-Ching Ho, 2022) - diamond pineconefish
Monocentris japonica (Houttuyn, 1782) - Japanese pineapplefish
Monocentris neozelanicus (Powell, 1938) - Maori pineconefish
Monocentris reedi (L. P. Schultz, 1956) - Reed's pineconefish

References

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Monocentris". FishBase. June 2013 version.
Su, Yo; Lin, Hsiu-Chin; Ho, Hsuan-Ching (2022-09-23). "A new cryptic species of the pineapple fish genus Monocentris (Family Monocentridae) from the western Pacific Ocean, with redescription of M. japonica (Houttuyn, 1782)". Zootaxa. 5189 (1): 180–203. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5189.1.18. ISSN 1175-5334.

Taxon identifiers
Monocentris	Wikidata: Q1900386 Wikispecies: Monocentris AFD: Monocentris BOLD: 2525 CoL: 63BHB EoL: 46567374 GBIF: 2356695 iNaturalist: 90018 IRMNG: 1432547 ITIS: 622099 NCBI: 181434 NZOR: caf71c15-7f43-44a2-b63c-c939e270d821 Open Tree of Life: 837719 Paleobiology Database: 35804 WoRMS: 204517

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