Fish

Question 1

Acanthuridae

Answer 1

Surgeonfishes, compress body form, small scales, small terminal mouth, dinurnal grazers, benthic algae, pelagic spawners

Question 2

Apogonidae

Answer 2

Cardinalfish, near fusiform, large eye, eyespot, large mouth, mostly red colored, noctural, hidden in crevacises during the day, eat zooplankton, mouth brooding

Question 3

Aulostromidae

Answer 3

trumpetfish- tubular body, tubular snouths, dinural, blend with vertical coral, ambush prey eat schooling reef fish

Question 4

Balistidae

Answer 4

Triggerfish- eyes high on head (good for eating sea urchins), solitary diurnal carnivores, eat echinoderms, two dorsal spines lock in place preventing predators from eating them and locking themselves in crevacises

Question 5

Bleniidae

Answer 5

Combtooth Blennies- no scales, refuge in small holes in ther reef, enter tail first, herbivores, cleaner minic tears peices off other fish, some have venomous teeth

Question 6

Bothidae

Answer 6

Flatfishes, lefteye flounder- both eyes on left side, born with eye on both sides- metamorphasis, camoflage, carnivourous, ambush

Question 7

Carangidae

Answer 7

Jacks, pompanos, scads- silvery, schools, fast swimming predatory

Question 8

Chaetodontidae

Answer 8

Butterflyfishes- many have a stripe running through eye, pelagic, feed on algae, zooplankton, invertibrates, larvae pass through a stage tholychthys and a bony sheath encases the hear

Question 9

Cirrhitidae

Answer 9

Hawkfishes-large thick heads, dart rapidly, eat small fish and crustaceans

Question 10

Dactylopteridae

Answer 10

flying gurnards- head large and blunt with bony helmet. swims slowly near ground- “walk” on floor, drumming muscle beats against swim bladder

Question 11

Kyphosidae

Answer 11

Sea chubs, health moons, nibblers, opaleyes, rudderfishes- zooplanttivore, herbivourous species, symbiotic gut bacteria

Question 12

Gobiidae

Answer 12

Gobies- some have pelvic fin suction cup, dart swimmers

Question 13

Eleotrididae

Answer 13

Sleepers- darting, live on substrate in burrows, benthic invertebraes, predatory

Question 14

Luthjanidae

Answer 14

Snappers- continueous dorsal fin, large terminal mouth, large point teeth, gray, brown, red, predators of crustaceans, fish

Question 15

Lethrinidae

Answer 15

emarginate tail, fusiform shape,large eyes, sculling, silver grey brown, feed at night, eat shelled inverts, protogynous hermaphordites

Question 16

Mullidae

Answer 16

Goatfishes-barbels with chemosensory organs, change colors, pelagic spawners

Question 17

Diodontidae

Answer 17

Porcupinefishes- beak-like fused teeth, eat hard shelled inverts, can inflate by sucking in water, covered in spines,

Question 18

Mugilidae

Answer 18

Grey Mullets- elongate, triangular mouth, square tail, silvery on sides some dark and yellow areas, in schools, eat detritus, alga

Question 19

Holocentridae

Answer 19

squirrelfish and soldierfish- reds and silvery colors, big eyespreopercle spines venomouse

Question 20

Muraenidae

Answer 20

eels- pharyngeal jaw,

Question 21

pinguipedidae

Answer 21

sandperches- benthic carnivores, inverts and small fish diet, protogynouse hermaphrodies

Question 22

Rajiormes

Answer 22

Rays- mainly each benthic fish and inverts, internal fertilization

Question 23

Scaridae

Answer 23

Parrotfish- thick cycloid scales, beak, graze on algae and scrape off parts of coral, large schools, protogynouse hermaphrodites

Question 24

Ostraciidae

Answer 24

Boxfish- box like, fused hexagonal plate scales, with two spines from heat, juveniles bright “honeycomb” patters, feed on algae and inverts, excrete ostratoxin

Question 25

Labridae

Answer 25

Wrasses- thick lips and pairs of protruding canine teeth, elongate bodies, continueous lateral line, single unnotched forsal fin, usually anal fin has spines, carniviours, benthic, protogynouse hermaphrodites, some are cleaners

Question 26

Siganidae

Answer 26

Rabbitfish- sloping face, protuding terminal mouth, large dark eye, highly manueverable, bright colors, herbivorious

Question 27

Pomacentridae

Answer 27

Damselfish- yellow, red, orange, blue, some browni, grey. small terminal mouth, single continuous dorsal fin, anemone fish

Question 28

Synodontidae

Answer 28

Lizardfishes- small cylindrical, reptile like head, quick bursts of speed, camoflage, bottom dwelling gish, predators

Question 29

Tetradontidae

Answer 29

puffers, ostraciform, eat benthic invertebrates

Question 30

zanclidae

Answer 30

moorish idol- strongly pointed mouth, long thrid dorsal spine, black and white and yellow stripes, eat inverts, pelagic spawners

Question 31

Sygnathidae

Answer 31

pipefish and sea horses- suck inverts into tubular snout, males brood eggs

Question 32

pomacanthidae

Answer 32

anglefish– preopercle spines, highly maneuverable, eat zooplankton, algae, spondes, protogynouse hermaphrodites

Question 33

Scorpaenidae

Answer 33

scorpion and lionfish- live in crevaces, heavily reged and spiny hear, change colors to match surrounding, ambush predator, eat crustaseans and small fish, vaccum in prey.

Question 34

Serranidae

Answer 34

Groupers- bottom dwellers, ambush predators, protogynouse hermaphrodites, large terminal mouth vaccum. several rows of sharp teeth, carnivorous.