Monocentris
{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
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| image_caption = Monocentris japonica
| taxon = Monocentris
| authority = Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801
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Monocentris is a genus of pinecone fishes native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Species
There are currently four recognized species in this genus:{{FishBase genus | genus = Monocentris| month = June | year = 2013}}
- Monocentris chrysadamas (Yo Su, Hsiu-Chin Lin, and Hsuan-Ching Ho, 2022){{Cite journal |last=Su |first=Yo |last2=Lin |first2=Hsiu-Chin |last3=Ho |first3=Hsuan-Ching |date=2022-09-23 |title=A new cryptic species of the pineapple fish genus Monocentris (Family Monocentridae) from the western Pacific Ocean, with redescription of M. japonica (Houttuyn, 1782) |url=https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5189.1.18 |journal=Zootaxa |language=en |volume=5189 |issue=1 |pages=180–203 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.5189.1.18 |issn=1175-5334|doi-access=free }} - diamond pineconefish
- Monocentris japonica (Houttuyn, 1782) - Japanese pineapplefish
- Monocentris neozelanicus (Powell, 1938) - Maori pineconefish
- Monocentris reedi (L. P. Schultz, 1956) - Reed's pineconefish
References
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Category:Taxa named by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider
Category:Taxa named by Marcus Elieser Bloch
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