Scientific Name: Gnathodentex aureolineatus
Family: Emperors - Lethrinidae
Maximum Size: 30cm
Identification: Silvery gray to brown; dark scale rows on back, 4-5 brown to gold stripes on sides, yellow-orange blotch below rear dorsal fin.
Favourite: Solitary to large aggregations.
Hide-out: Shallow coastal reefs, lagoons and outer slopes in 3-20m.
Location: Indo-Pacific - E. Africa to Micronesia, Line Is. and French Polynesia. S.W. Japan to S.E. Australia and Norfolk Is.
Striped Large-Eye Bream
Roundspot Surgeonfish
Family: Surgeonfishes - Acanthuridae
Maximum Size: 50cm
Identification: Brown to yellowish brown with yellow dorsal fin, and white lips; yellow bar behind gill cover, round black spot behind eye.
Favourite: Solitary or in pairs.
Hide-out: Clear seaward reefs in 6-50m.
Location: Indo-Asian Pacific - E. Africa to Solomon Is. S.W. Japan to Great Barrier Reef.
Striped Whiptail
Scientific Name: Scaevius vitta
Family: Coral Breams - Nemipteridae
Maximum Size: 30cm
Identification: Light gray; dark mid-lateral stripe with diffuse white borders, often a broad dusky to blackish area along upper edge of belly.
Favourite: Solitary or form small groups.
Hide-out: Coastal reefs in 1-30m.
Location: W. Australia.
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