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title: "Marignan tacheté"
description: "Neoniphon sammara — Poissons. Neoniphon sammara, the sammara squirrelfish, also known as the blood-spot squirrelfish, slender squirrelfish, spotfin squirrelfish, armed squirrel-fish or javelin squirrelfish, is a species squirrelfish found in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean from East Africa to the Hawaiian Islands."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/fr/animal/spotfin-squirrelfish
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Marignan tacheté

> Neoniphon sammara — Poissons. Neoniphon sammara, the sammara squirrelfish, also known as the blood-spot squirrelfish, slender squirrelfish, spotfin squirrelfish, armed squirrel-fish or javelin squirrelfish, is a species squirrelfish found in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean from East Africa to the Hawaiian Islands.

- Scientific name: *Neoniphon sammara*
- Category: `fish` (Poissons)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mer et côte)
- iNaturalist observations: 2309
- Wikidata: [Q3644450](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3644450)
- iNaturalist taxon: [130526](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/130526)

## Names

- en: Spotfin Squirrelfish
- de: Blutfleck-Husar
- es: Carajuelo delgado
- fr: Marignan tacheté

## Countries with the most observations

EG (360), ID (219), US (210), FJ (151), NC (117), PF (82), AU (56), MV (54), GU (36), VU (36), JP (33), KE (33)

## Summary

Neoniphon sammara, the sammara squirrelfish, also known as the blood-spot squirrelfish, slender squirrelfish, spotfin squirrelfish, armed squirrel-fish or javelin squirrelfish, is a species squirrelfish found in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean from East Africa to the Hawaiian Islands. It feeds on shrimps and small crabs and fish at night and can grow up to 32.0 centimetres (12.6 in) TL in length, though its common length is only 23.0 centimetres (9.1 in) TL. Like N. opercularis, it has a venomous spine on its preopercle.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoniphon_sammara

## Photo

![Marignan tacheté](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/spotfin-squirrelfish/medium.jpg)

Photo: Andrew Deacon · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/174066143

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/spotfin-squirrelfish?lang=fr` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).