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Amethyst anthias
Mirolabrichthys pascalus
The Amethyst Anthias has a massive body, a large mouth and spiny gill covers.
Marine
Guide to marine fish with sorting and selection options by family, feeding method, size, and other important characteristics.
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Arrowhead soapfish
Belonoperca chabanaudi
Arrowhead soapfish have a massive body and a large mouth. Their gill covers are covered with …
Asian butterflyfish
Chaetodon argentatus
The Asian butterflyfish is a fish with a large body compressed at the sides, a small …
Bicolor goatfish
Parupeneus barberinoides
These fish have 15-16 (usually 15) pectoral rays. They have 6-8 + 20-25 (total 28-32) gill …
Big-scale parma
Parma oligolepis
Large Parma have an oval body with flattened sides and a pointed muzzle. The eyes are …
Blackfin fairy-warsse
Cirrhilabrus melanomarginatus
The blackfin fairy-warsse has an unusual skin covering on the back of its head. It is …
Bluegirdled angelfish
Pomacanthus navarchus
The body of this fish is flattened on the sides. There is a long spine on …
Bluespotted grouper
Cephalopholis argus
The body of the bluespotted grouper is elongated, massive, somewhat compressed at the sides, cylindrical in …
Chinese demoiselle
Neopomacentrus bankieri
Chinese demoiselle are characterised by ctenoid scales, weak teeth and only one row of gill rakers …
Coral hawkfish
Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus
These fish have an oval, moderately compressed body with a pointed snout of straight profile. The …
Emperor angelfish
Pomacanthus imperator
It has an oval body, slightly elongated, strongly compressed at the sides. The mouth is elongated, …
Fang's pygmygoby
Trimma fangi
Fang's pygmygoby is distinguished by a combination of the following characters: absence of predorsal scales; anterior …
Fourspot butterflyfish
Chaetodon quadrimaculatus
Fourspot butterflyfish have very fine, hair-like teeth that allow them to target small organisms inaccessible to …
Foxface rabbitfish
Siganus vulpinus
The body is large, oval in shape, compressed at the sides, and covered with fine cycloid …
Garish hind
Cephalopholis igarashiensis
The garish hind has an elongated, massive body, somewhat compressed at the sides and covered on …
Hawaiian butterflyfish
Chaetodon tinkeri
Small fishes with a very compressed body, high on the sides, a small terminal retractable mouth, …
Hong Kong butterflyfish
Chaetodon wiebeli
Chaetodon wiebeli was first officially described in 1863 by the German ichthyologist Johann Jakob Kaup (1803-1873), …
Ornate butterflyfish
Chaetodon ornatissimus
Snout length 2.6-3.2 in HL. Body depth 1.3-1.6 in SL.
Plumed scorpionfish
Scorpaena grandicornis
The plumed scorpionfish is named for the long, fleshy projections above each eye. It is not …
Purple anthias
Pseudanthias tuka
Males have a pointed snout and long, dragging tail filaments. Male P. pascalus has spots on …
Sea goldie
Pseudanthias squamipinnis
There is a pronounced dimorphism in this species.
Semicircled angelfish
Pomacanthus semicirculatus
Adults and juveniles are very different. Juveniles gradually acquire adult colouration when they reach a size …
Sixspine butterflyfish
Parachaetodon ocellatus
Six-spined butterflyfish have deep, narrow bodies from the sides. They have continuous dorsal and caudal fins …
Southern ninespine stickleback
Pungitius platygaster
The southern ninespine stickleback can be distinguished from its European relatives by the large flaps on …