Family: Angelfish - Pomacanthidae
Maximum Size: 25cm
Identification: Yellow-orange with blue spots and blue lips; deep blue broad girdle wraps body from nape to ventral fins along belly and curving up to above base of tail.
Favourite: Solitary.
Hide-out: Coral reefs in 3-40m.
Location: Asian Pacific - Indonesia to W. Micronesia and Solomon Is. Philippines to Great Barrier Reef.
Blue-Girdled Angelfish
Malabar Snapper
Scientific Name: Lutjanus malabaricus
Family: Snappers - Lutjanidae
Maximum Size: 100cm
Identification: Juvenile - Reddish with narrow dusky stripes; black band from lip through eye to dorsal fin, white-edged black spot covering tail base. Adult - Red in deep water, not on reefs.
Favourite: Solitary.
Hide-out: Coastal and outer reefs in 10-40m.
Location: Indo-West Pacific - Arabian Gulf to Palau and Fiji. Taiwan and S.W. Japan to S.E. Australia.
Yellowmask Surgeonfish
Family: Surgeonfishes - Acanthuridae
Maximum Size: 50cm
Identification: Slender; pale to dark bluish body with numerous blue and dark horizontal lines, upper lip yellowish; yellow band through eye.
Favourite: Groups feed on zooplankton.
Hide-out: Inshore (often turbid) and outer reefs in 5-25m.
Location: Indo-Pacific - Red Sea and E. Africa to French Polynesia. S.W. Japan to Great Barrier Reef and New Caledonia.
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