Family: Rabbitfishes - Siganidae
Maximum Size: 30cm
Identification: Pale brown to blue with pattern of close-set dark-edged brown to orange spots; may display pale saddle on tail base, large dark spot behind gill cover.
Favourite: In pairs.
Hide-out: Coral areas in 1-40m.
Location: East Indo-West Pacific - Cocos-Keeling Is. to Sumatra in Indonesia, Micronesia and Samoa. S.W. Japan to W.&E. Australia and New Caledonia.
Gold-Spotted Rabbitfish
Ocellated Damsel
Family: Damselfishes - Pomacentridae
Maximum Size: 13cm
Identification: Dark brown; blue ocellated spot on mid-dorsal fin base and a second below last dorsal rays; large adults sometimes lose these spots.
Hide-out: Among rocks and corals of shoreline reefs, often in turbid conditions to 20m.
Location: Indo-Asian Pacific - Sri Lanka and Andaman Sea to Sumatra, Java and Komodo I. in Indonesia.
Dot & Dash Butterflyfish
Family: Butterflyfish - Chaetodontidae
Maximum Size: 12.5cm
Description: Yellowish tan with diagonal rows of dark spots becoming solid bands on upper body; orange eye bar, black spot on nape.
Favourite: Usually in pairs, sometimes with Spot-banded Butterflyfish (occasionally hybridize).
Hide-out: Outer reefs to 30m.
Location: Pacific - Indonesia, Philippines, Micronesia to Line Is. in eastern Central Pacific. N. Philippines to N.W. & E. Australia.
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