Monocentris Neozelanicus
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''Monocentris'' is a
genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of pinecone fishes native to the Indian and
Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is ...
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Species

There are currently four recognized species in this genus: * ''
Monocentris chrysadamas ''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 ...
'' (Yo Su, Hsiu-Chin Lin, and Hsuan-Ching Ho, 2022) - diamond pineconefish * ''
Monocentris japonica ''Monocentris japonica'', the Japanese pineapplefish, is a pinecone fish of the family Monocentridae Pinecone fishes are small and unusual marine fish of the family (biology), family Monocentridae. The family contains just five species in tw ...
'' ( Houttuyn, 1782) - Japanese pineapplefish * '' Monocentris neozelanicus'' ( Powell, 1938) - Maori pineconefish * '' Monocentris reedi'' ( L. P. Schultz, 1956) - Reed's pineconefish


References

Monocentridae Marine fish genera Taxa named by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider Taxa named by Marcus Elieser Bloch {{Beryciformes-stub