Family: Scat - Scatophagidae
Maximum Size: 30cm
Identification: Greenish brown to silvery with numerous brown to red-brown spots. Juveniles have alternating light and dark bars.
Favourite: Form aggregations.
Hide-out: Sheltered bays, harbors and mangrove creeks to 5m.
Location: Indo-West Pacific - Arabian Gulf to Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea and Fiji. S.W. Japan to Australia.
Spotted Scat
Multicolor Pygmy Angelfish
Family: Angelfish - Pomacanthidae
Maximum Size: 9cm
Identification: White upper body, yellow face and lower body, dark blue dorsal and anal fins, yellow tail; blue patch on nape with black barring.
Favourite: Usually solitary; shy.
Hide-out: Under ledges on steep outer reef dropoffs in 20-90m.
Location: Central Pacific - Micronesia to Hawaii, south to Samoa, Fiji, Cook Is. and Society Is. in French Polynesia.
Moorish Idol
Family: Moorish Idol - Zanclidae
Maximum Size: 16cm
Identification: Three wide black and two pale yellow bars; yellow saddle marking on long protruding snout; long trailing dorsal fin filament.
Favourite: Solitary, in pairs or groups; feed primarily on sponges.
Hide-out: Lagoons and outer reefs to 180m.
Location: Indo-Pacific - E. Africa to Micronesia, Hawaii, Polynesia, Mexico and Galapagos. S.W. Japan to Great Barrier Reef.
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