Sargocentron hastatum

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Moore, J. |author2=Polanco Fernandez, A. |author3=Russell, B. |author4=McEachran, J.D. |date=2015 |title=Sargocentron hastatum |volume=2015 |page=e.T16447855A16510147 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T16447855A16510147.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| genus = Sargocentron

| species = hastatum

| authority = Cuvier, 1829

| synonyms = *Holocentrum hastatum Cuvier, 1829

• Adioryx hastatus (Cuvier, 1829)
• Holocentrus hastatus (Cuvier, 1829)
• Sargocentron hastatus (Cuvier, 1829)

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Sargocentron hastatum, the red soldierfish or the red squirrelfish is a species of marine fish of the family Holocentridae.{{WRMS species|272211|Sargocentron hastatum (Cuvier, 1829)||14 January 2019}} It occurs in the eastern Atlantic, from the coasts of Portugal down to Angola,{{FishBase|Sargocentron|hastatum| month = January | year = 2019}} including Cape Verde.Ben-Tuvia, A., 1990. "Holocentridae". p. 627–628., J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post y L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2.

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This fish grows to a maximal length of {{convert|28|cm}}.