Scientific Name: Scolopsis ghanam
Family: Coral Breams - Nemipteridae
Maximum Size: 25cm
Identification: Alternating pale gray to black and white stripes on upper body and white below with rows of black spots.
Favourite: Solitary or form small groups.
Hide-out: Coastal reefs and lagoons in 2-25m.
Location: Indian Ocean - Red Sea, E. Africa and Arabian Gulf to Andaman Sea.
Arabian Monocle Bream
Fork-Tailed Threadfin Bream
Scientific Name: Nemipterus furcosus
Family: Coral Breams - Nemipteridae
Maximum Size: 30cm
Identification: Pinkish red with dusky saddles on back, lower edge of tail whitish; elongate body with deeply forked tail.
Hide-out: Seldom on reefs, usually inhabit featureless sand bottoms in 3-100m.
Location: Indo-Asian Pacific - Sri Lanka to S.W. Japan, Papua, N. Australia and New Caledonia.
Palette Surgeonfish
Family: Surgeonfishes - Acanthuridae
Maximum Size: 31cm
Identification: Brilliant blue head and body with dramatic black hook-shaped marking, yellow tail with black borders.
Favourite: Solitary or form groups.
Hide-out: Young hide in branching corals. Usually on clear, current swept outer reefs in 2-25m.
Location: Indo-Pacific - E. Africa to Indonesia, Micronesia, Samoa, New Caledonia and Line I. S.W. Japan to Great Barrier Reef.
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