Scientific Name: Chaetodon tinkeri
Family: Butterflyfish - Chaetodontidae
Maximum Size: 15cm
Description: White with numerous dark dots; broad black diagonal area across rear of body.
Favourite: Solitary, in pairs or small aggregations.
Hide-out: Usually shelter in black corals and sea fans on steep slopes in 27-160m.
Location: Marshall Is., Johnston Atoll and Hawaii.
Tinker's Butterflyfish
Black Snapper
Scientific Name: Macolor niger
Family: Snappers - Lutjanidae
Maximum Size: 60cm
Identification: Gray to gray-brown with numerous indistinct blotches; no blue lines or spots on head; large eye with dull gold iris.
Favourite: Solitary or form schools.
Hide-out: Steep slopes of lagoons, passes and outer reefs in 3-90m.
Location: Indo-West Pacific - Red Sea and E. Africa to Micronesia and Samoa. S.W. Japan to Australia and New Caledonia.
Blueback Damsel
Scientific Name: Pomacentrus simsiang
Family: Damselfishes - Pomacentridae
Maximum Size: 9cm
Identification: Yellow with blue upper head and back; pale spots on cheek and gill cover, usually blue lines on forehead.
Favourite: Solitary or form groups.
Hide-out: Silty shoreline reefs and lagoons around coral and rock outcroppings to 10m.
Location: Asian Pacific - Indonesia, Philippines, Palau to Solomon Is. and Vanuatu. S.W. Japan to Australia.
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