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The biggest we
have seen are in Musandam, Oman. Family Scaridae.
Picture by Phil Knight in the Red Sea pknight@knightdiving.freeserve.co.uk
Bicolour Parrotfish
The picture on the left is the
mature male (terminal male).
The name comes from the female
which is dark grey with a
broad yellow stripe down the
length of the back.
Distribution: Found on underwater ridges,
mountain tops and continental shelves around
sub-Antarctic islands.
Picture, Caver Colin,
Trumpet fish. Divers normally notice them when they are 2-3ft/66cm - 1m long. They swim with
their dorsal and pectoral fins, have heavily ossified skin and small caudal fins. They
are related to sea horses and the male incubates their
eggs which hatch in
around 10-45 days. They eat plankton which is sucked through their tubular
mouths.
Family Syngnathidea.
Picture,
www.tokyoscuba.com
in Japan A reef fish. They are closely related to Sweetlips, Snappers and Grunts and are found in the
western Atlantic Ocean from Florida, Bermuda to Brazil.
They have a bright yellow-gold background colour
with two diagonal bands on the head. They can grow to 1 foot / 30cm.
Family: Pomadasyidae.
Picture: Tom Haight Marine Wildlife Photography :
These fish can inflate their bodies to several sizes
larger than in their normal swimming state. They do it when feeling
threatened and makes them look formidable and physically harder to
swallow. Porcupine Puffer
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Picture by www.tokyoscuba.com Pollack Pollack stay deep (120m) at
night. Rabbit Fish This family are related to the Surgeon fishes. They are characterised by an out-thrust,
fixed munching mouth. It is a lively swimmer and a sociable plant eater found in
warm coastal areas. The body and vertical fins are bright yellow, they have a dark snout with a
dark chin besides having two white streaks. Beware of the sharp spines. Length -
10 inches /25 cm Family Siganidae Picture awaited. Details awaited.
Family Syngnathidea Sea horses (and their relatives the pipe fish)swim with their dorsal and pectoral fins and they
can grip with their tail. Seahorses are found in tropical coastal waters and grow rapidly and achieve maturity within 6 months,
but live less than three years. The male incubates the young in a pouch like a kangaroo. They only eat plankton. Pygmy sea horses can be smaller than your small finger nail and live within the branches of a coral. Oceanic Seahorse is brown to yellow/golden yellow and the largest at 20cm / 8 inches. The Leafy Seadragon sea horse is a protected species in
New Zealand. They live in sea grass close to shore.
Squirrel and Soldier fish are twilight or night time predators. Divers will often see them
under overhangs and in dark crevices They are usually red, have bulging eyes ad a stiff spine. They can be found in all
tropical reefs around the world and eat all small fish and crabs. Family: Holocentridae
Picture by Phil Knight in the Red Sea pknight@knightdiving.freeserve.co.uk
Picture by Phil Knight in the Red Sea. pknight@knightdiving.freeserve.co.uk Yellow lined sweetlips have bright
orange-yellow stripes on a black background Clown Sweetlips lives in the
Indonesian/Malaysian seas and western Pacific. It is a mottled brown
fish with white spots. grows to 18 inches/45 cm. Family Pomadasyidae
Picture by Steven McCusker in the North Red Sea, Nov 02 Surgeon fish can grow large, and be aggressive. Most can change colouration
and pattern at will. They are plant eaters with small mouths. Lively swimmers
Picture by Michael Loftesnes of PagoPago
Divers Samoa Found on coral reefs in the
Red Sea, Indian and Pacific
oceans. Lots of vertical
stripes of orange and purple
on a grey/white background.
White spots cover its face and
tail.
Family Acanthuridae.
Picture by Cath Knight in the Red Sea
pknight@knightdiving.freeserve.co.uk
Family Acanthuridae. Spawning attracts predators such as manta rays which eat their
floating
eggs.
Details awaited.
Family Acanthuridae.
It can bee found up to 50m/165ft down.
Family Elopidae
Tarpon are shoaling fish. They have an upturned mouth and very silvery scales
which make them hard to photograph. They
can reach 2.5m/8ft in length and are seen between 0 and 100 feet/30m deep. They
tend to feed at night on smaller fish.
Photos and details awaited.
Picture by http://www.mvillusions.com
in the Seychelles Lovely photos, but we are not sure what they are:
Wrasse?
Fish 14 - 24 These pictures were
taken by Big Col, Dogsbreath divers chairman.
Fish 25 - 29 Fish 31 and 32
Niali worms
These are small red worms around 4inches long found off Sumba island in Indonesia. The adults live
in holes in the reef. The local people regard them as a delicacy.
Parrot Fish
A common reef fish, blue green
in colour. Colouration can vary considerably between ages and sexes. Usually found in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean They bite off hard corals, eat the fleshy coral
polyps within and pulverise the coral into sand. Parrot fish can grow to
24 inches.
(Cetoscarus bicolor)
Picture by Phil Knight in the Red Sea pknight@knightdiving.freeserve.co.uk
Pictures by Big Col, Dogsbreath diver in the Red Sea
Patagonian Toothfish
It grows slowly up to 7 feet/2metres. It can live for 50
years and does not breed until 10 years old.. It lives in deep water
(300 metres to 1500 metres) Eaten by Sperm whales. Little else is known.
Pipefish
Dogsbreath Diver
Cayman Islands.
Panamic
Porkfish
Cabo Pulmo Reef, Sea of Cortez,
Mexico.
http://oceanimages.com
Picture by www.tokyoscuba.com
Are these both puffers?
Picture by Tamworth John in Mexico
Picture by Caver Colin, Dogsbreath diver in Aqaba, Jordan
Picture by
www.aquasportlanzarote.com in Spain
Picture by Steven McCusker in the North Red Sea, Nov 02
Picture by Tamworth John in Mexico
(but we're not sure which variety)
Picture by James Yonge in the Scilly Isles, UK http://scubadiving.8k.com
A Masked Puffer
Picture by Steven McCusker in the North Red Sea, Nov 02
by Mark Walton, Dogsbreath diver in Thailand.
Pictures by Justin, Dogsbreath Diver in the Maldives, Oct 03
Sailfish One
of the fastest fish in the ocean It has a large dorsal fin down the
whole of its back and hunts fish during daylight.
Excellent and copyrighted pictures at: http://earthwindow.com
Sardines
Seen in June off the coast of
Natal, east South Africa . They form shoals of up to a mile long. The
current reverses in June bringing up nutriments, which is eaten by
plankton forming an algae bloom, which the sardines eat. Hundreds of
Bronze Whaler, and hammerhead sharks
follow the sardines.
Scorpion fish:
Scorpion fishes are found in every sea of the world.
They are predators and many have poisonous spines similar to Lionfish. The poison is comparable to a
snake. Normally active in the twilight hours. Family Scorpaenidae.
Pictures by Big Col, Dogsbreath Diver in
Oman 2000
Picture by www.PhiPhi-scuba.com
in Phuket.
Picture by Caver Colin in Aqaba, Jordan
2002
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in Japan
Picture by Pete
West in Sharm el Sheikh Egypt.
Sea Horses
Seahorse by www.seawolfdivingschool.com in
Montserrat.
They grow to 20cm / 8 inches
Redcoat
Squirrelfish
(Sargocentron
ruber)
Sunfish
Also called mola-molas
Excellent and copyrighted pictures at: http://earthwindow.com.
Sunfish are large circular
fish which can be 4 metres
from wing tip to wing tip and weigh 75kg or more.
Eat jelly fish.
Seen: Tiawan
Musendam peninsular, Oman
St Ives, Cornwall, England (infrequent visitor).
Sweetlips are related to
Perches and Grunts and have lively colouration, large heads with puffy
lips. Once mature, they are omnivores. Some adults form schools. They
eat crabs and can grow to 24inches/ 60cm.
Tang, Surgeonfish
Sailfin Tang
Blue Tang
A reef fish found in the Caribbean and tropical
Atlantic and can grow to 30cm/12 inches long. The young are bright yellow and begin turning to blue at 9cm/4 inches long.
Surgeon Fish
This is probably a juvenile Surgeonfish
(Tang)
Philippine Surgeon Fish
Family Acanthuridae.
Found on reefs and inshore areas of the
Indian and Pacific oceans and the Red Sea. Can be aggressive to other
fish. Black face with a white chin. Blue body, bright yellow dorsal fin,
whiteish anal fin. Can grow to 12 inches/30cm. 1
Powder Blue Surgeon fish
Picture by Steven McCusker in the North Red Sea, Nov 02
Found in the Indian and
Pacific Oceans and the
Red Sae on reefs and inshore areas.
T1he dorsal fin is yellow.
Clown Surgeon/ Striped Surgeon
Found on reefs and inshore waters of the
Indian and Pacific Oceans. Blue or violet belly with 8-10 horizontal
blue, brown and yellow lines from the cheek and eye to the base of the
tail. Grows to 18cm/7 inches.
Blue Surgeon Fish
Details awaited. Family Acanthuridae.
Moorish Idol
Found throughout the Indian and Pacific
oceans. Eats plants and algae. Yellowish white with three broad dark
brown bands running vertically. Grows to 25cm/10 inches. Has a very
long, thin streamer from the dorsal fin.
Moorish Idol by
www.tokyoscuba.com. Also known as Kihikihi Loulou, Toby and Tsunodashi
Smoothhead Unicorn Fish
Details awaited. Family Acanthuridae.
Yellow Tailed Tang
Details awaited. Family Acanthuridae.
Tarpon
Distribution: Caribbean, Florida, Bahamas, Bermuda, Gulf of Mexico. (Dogs breath
Divers have been snorkelling in the water with them as they eat at the end of the
jetty of Tortuga Divers, Cayman Islands).
Picture,
Tolgus BS-AC
Picture Mark Walton, Dogsbreath Diver in the Caymans
Picture, Tolgus BS-AC
Trigger Fish
Picture by Tamworth John in Mexico
Tuna: There are many varieties of Tuna of all
sizes. They range freely and can be in vast shoals eating smaller fish. Tuna
spawn in the Mediterranean
every spring.
Yellow fin Tuna
Take 2 years to become adults. At 3 years they weigh
200kg and can be 2 meters long. Panama.
Bigeye Tuna: Highly prized in Japan for eating raw as sushi and sashimi.
Blue fin Tuna
Adults are 4 meters long and can hunt in cold seas as they can keep themselves warm.
Wrasse:
Cleaner wrasse eat parasites. Other fish regularly visit the Cleaner
wrasse to be rid of the parasites.
Distribution: worldwide in warm waters.
This picture of a cleaner wrasse (the small blue fish on
the larger one) is from www.tokyoscuba.com
in Japan.
Cuckoo Wrasse by Tam Boyd in east Scotland
Napoleon Wrasse, also known as a Giant Maori
Wrasse or Hump Headed Wrasse. Very common around dive boats as they like
to take the food scraps and integrate well with people
Fish 1
Done!
Fish 2
kagon from www.tokyoscuba.com
Fish 3
from www.tokyoscuba.com
Fish 4
from www.tokyoscuba.com
Fish 5
from www.tokyoscuba.com
Fish 6
from www.tokyoscuba.com
Fish 7
Fish 8
Seen in the Red Sea
Fish 10
Fish 11
Fish 12
Fish 13
Done!
Fish
and scenes in the Red Sea. We were diving from Sharm El Sheikh.
Keith's
photos
... and these are by
Tam Boyd in the
May Isle in the Firth of Forth, Scotland.
Fish 33-35
Pictures by Steven McCusker in the North Red Sea, Nov 02
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