Tag: Fish
Materials found: 33
Lined Butterflyfish
A large butterflyfish with a silvery-white body covered with thin dark vertical lines and a yellow rear part of the body. Inhabits coral reefs, more often found in pairs and feeds mainly on coral polyps.
Chaetodon lineolatus
Live Sharksucker
An elongated fish with a characteristic sucker on the upper side of the head, allowing it to attach to sharks, rays, turtles, and large fish. Inhabits tropical and subtropical seas, feeding on food remains from the host and small invertebrates.
Echeneis naucrates
Longfin Bannerfish
The longfin bannerfish is a reef fish with a high body and a characteristic strongly elongated anterior ray of the dorsal fin in the form of a long white "banner." Coloration is white with two wide black stripes and yellow rear fins; usually found in pairs or small groups near coral reefs.
Heniochus acuminatus
Longfin grouper
The longfin grouper is a small reef predator with a light "honey" colour and a dense pattern of dark hexagonal or rounded spots on the head, body and fins. On the upper body the pattern looks more like a network; lower down the spots are fewer and less distinct. It is usually sluggish and often "sits" on the bottom resting on its long, fleshy pectoral fins; it feeds on small fish, crustaceans and worms.
Epinephelus quoyanus
Map pufferfish
The map pufferfish (also known as the scribbled puffer) is a large pufferfish with a "map-like" or maze-like pattern of light wavy lines on a grey to greenish-brown background. The skin has no scales but small skin spines. The teeth are fused into a strong "beak" used to crush hard prey (molluscs and crustaceans). When threatened it inflates to look larger; its tissues may contain tetrodotoxin.
Arothron mappa
Melon butterflyfish
The melon butterflyfish is a reef butterflyfish of the Indian Ocean, usually up to 15 cm. The body is strongly flattened; main colour is light yellow to yellowish with thin oblique bluish-blue lines on the sides. It has dark bands: one through the eye ("mask"), a broad band just behind the head and a dark area at the tail base. Adults are often seen in pairs and feed mainly on hard coral polyps.
Chaetodon trifasciatus
Phantom bannerfish
The phantom bannerfish is a reef fish of the family Chaetodontidae from the central Indo-Pacific. The body is deep and strongly flattened; the first dorsal ray is elongated into a "banner". Coloration is light with contrasting dark areas: a "mask" through the eye, a broad dark band behind the head and a dark patch or zone at the tail base; the upper body and back are often yellowish. It lives in coral-rich lagoons and on outer reef slopes, in pairs or groups (sometimes large schools in some areas), often on reef crests in the surge zone.
Heniochus pleurotaenia
Pinecone soldierfish
A soldierfish with a silvery-pink body and large scales, red fins and a dark streak on the gill cover ending in a spot at the base of the pectoral fin. Large eyes; mostly active at night and found near reef shelters.
Myripristis murdjan
Raccoon butterflyfish
The raccoon butterflyfish (lunula) is a reef fish of the family Chaetodontidae, widespread in the tropical waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is recognised by its "raccoon mask" — a black band through the eye with a white edge — and a black spot on the tail base. The body is oval and strongly flattened; main colour is yellow with white areas and oblique dark reddish or brown streaks on the sides. It is usually seen alone, in pairs or small groups on reefs and in lagoons, and feeds on various invertebrates and sometimes coral polyps.
Chaetodon lunula