Blubberlip

Scientific Name: Plectorhinchus gibbosus
Family: Sweetlips - Haemulidae
Maximum Size: 60cm
Identification: Gray to brown with charcoal-gray head; black margin on cheek and gill cover, dark outlines around scales, may display dusky wide bar on back and forebody; high back profile.
Favourite: Solitary.
Hide-out: Coastal reefs, lagoons and outer slopes to 25m.
Location: Indo-West Pacific - Red Sea and E. Africa to Samoa. S.W. Japan to Australia.

Ocellated Soapfish

Scientific Name: Grammistops ocellatus
Family: Soapfishes - Serranidae
Maximum Size: 13cm
Identification: Brown with large pale-edged dark brown to blackish spot on gill cover. Similar Mottled Soapfish has larger scales and is mottled.
Favourite: Solitary or in pairs; cryptic.
Hide-out: Deep inside caves and crevices of lagoons and outer slopes in 8-30m.
Location: Indo-Pacific - E. Africa to Society Is. in French Polynesia. S.W. Japan to Australia.

Mottled Soapfish

Scientific Name: Pseudogramma polyacanthum
Family: Soapfishes - Serranidae
Maximum Size: 7.5cm
Identification: Mottled brown; large pale-edged dark spot on gill cover. Similar to Ocellated Soapfish has much smaller scales and is not mottled.
Favourite: Solitary and cryptic.
Hide-out: Caves and crevices of coral reefs in 1-61m.
Location: Indo-Pacific - E. Africa to Pitcaim Is. east of French Polynesia. S.W. Japan to Australia.