Family: Damselfishes - Pomacentridae
Maximum Size: 13cm
Identification: Reddish orange with variable amounts of black on sides; a white to pale bluish bar on head. Young are overall reddish orange with 2-3 narrow white bars.
Hide-out: Live with 3 anemone species in lagoons and outer reefs to 10m.
Location: Pacific - Bali in Indonesia to Marshall Is., Fiji and Society Is. in French Polynesia. Philippines to Great Barrier Reef.
Red and Black Anemonefish
False Fusilier
Scientific Name: Paracaesio sordida
Family: Snappers - Lutjanidae
Maximum Size: 40cm
Identification: Purplish brown to blue with faint dark stripes, lower lobe of tail red (dark brown underwater); slender elongate body with deeply forked tail similar to fusilier family.
Favourite: Form schools.
Hide-out: Steep outer reefs in 30-200m.
Location: Indo-West Pacific - Red Sea to S.W. Japan, Papua New Guinea and Samoa.
Humpback Snapper
Scientific Name: Lutjanus gibbus
Family: Snappers - Lutjanidae
Maximum Size: 50cm
Identification: Shades of red to gray; maroon forked tail with rounded lobes, high arching nape and foreback; orange around base of pectoral fin.
Favourite: Solitary or form schools.
Hide-out: Lagoons, passages and outer reef slopes in 1-150m.
Location: Indo-Pacific - Red Sea and E. Africa to Micronesia, Line Is. and French Polynesia. S.W. Japan to Australia and New Caledonia.
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