Scientific Name: Abudefduf notatus
Family: Damselfishes - Pomacentridae
Maximum Size: 15cm
Identification: Gray with 5 narrow white bars (including band on tail base); yellow tail.
Favourite: Usually form schools, but occasionally solitary.
Hide-out: Rocky inshore reefs with moderate to strong wave action to 12m.
Location: Indo-Asian Pacific - E. Africa to New Britain east of Papua New Guinea, north to S.W. Japan.
Yellowtail Sergeant
Circular Spadefish
Scientific Name: Platax orbicularis
Family: Spadefish - Ephippidae
Maximum Size: 28cm
Identification: Silver; dark to faint eye bar and a second bar from front of dorsal to ventral fin, usually few small black spots on sides.
Favourite: In pairs or groups.
Hide-out: Shoreline and outer reefs in 2-35m.
Location: Indo-Pacific - Red Sea and E. Africa to Indonesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. S.W. Japan to N.E. Australia and New Caledonia.
Slender Unicornfish
Scientific Name: Naso lopezi
Family: Surgeonfishes - Acanthuridae
Maximum Size: 65cm
Identification: Slender body; bluish gray with numerous small round dark gray spots; occasionally displays a large whitish patch around pectoral fin.
Favourite: Form groups; feed on zooplankton.
Hide-out: Along steep outer reef drop-offs in 20-50m.
Location: East Indo-Asian Pacific - Andaman Sea to Papua New Guinea. Philippines to Great Barrier Reef.
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