''Sargocentron shimuzui'', or Shimizu's squirrelfish, is a species of

squirrelfish Holocentrinae is a subfamily of Holocentridae containing 40 recognized species and one proposed species. Its members are typically known as squirrelfish and all are nocturnal. All three genera in the subfamily are found in the Atlantic and ''Hol ...

belonging to the genus of

Sargocentron ''Sargocentron'' is a genus of squirrelfish (family Holocentridae) found in tropical parts of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, with the greatest species diversity near reefs in the Indo-Pacific. Being largely or entirely nocturnal, they ...

. It is named after ichthyologist Takeshi Shimizu. It is known from only 2 specimens that were taken with dynamite in

Sulawesi Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...

, Indonesia in 1909.

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shimizui Fish of the Pacific Ocean Taxa named by John Ernest Randall Fish described in 1998 {{Beryciformes-stub