FISH ID Flashcards

Blackfin Baracuda
- Up to 140 cm, commenly 80 cm
- 18-22 broken chevron shapes dark markings >>>>

Napoleon Wrasse
- Up to 229 m
- Intial phase (child-teen) = more pale

Pinjalo Snapper
- Up to 50cm
- Yellow ventral fins
- Reddish / grey to red
- Can quickley

Brown-Marbled Grouper
- Pale yellowish / marble pattern
- vertical series of irregular of dark brown spots

Rainbow Runner
- up 120 cm
- Two bright blue stripes with a yellow margin in the middle

Longface Emperor
- Long body with long pointed snout
- Grey to olive with no markings

ROVING CORAL GROUPER
- STRIPES AND LONG SPOTS

Bluefin Trevally
- Blue fins & spots
- Not round head, more pointed

Giant Trevally
- Looks mean
- Big and spots
- Round head

Redmouth Grouper
- Boxy shape, look at boxy fins
- Redish around the head

White Spotted Grouper
- White Spotted

Black Saddle Coral Grouper
- Black Saddle and yellow fins
- white body

One-Blotch Grouper
- Spot on dorsal side of body

Yellowtailed Barracuda
- Long snout
- usaully together
- Big eyes

Picklehandle Barracuda
- Bars (Stripes) upper half body
- In schools
Silver with yellowish tail
Milkfish
- Looks like a mini shark

Blackfin Barracuda
- Black fin
- Broken black chevron (stripes)
- Really pointed snout

Highfin Grouper
- two white saddle on dorsal side
- has a high fin

Great Barracuda
- Black Spots
- Usaully alone

Speckled Grouper
- Small black spots all over

Netfin Grouper
- Closely packed brown spots
- Big brown spots

Blubberlip Snapper
- Yellow fins
- Large lips

Dogtooth Tuna
- Pale tips on rear dorasal and anal fins
- takker

Smalltooth Jobfish
- tie behind the eye

Green Jobfish
- Rounded face with mouth turning down
- looks sad after coming home from job

Malabar Grouper
- small dark spots covering the body
- bigger marks covering the body

Giant Grouper
- Yellow shades around tips of fins
- brown with big white spots

Orange-Spotted Grouper
- H-shaped dark bars (stripe broken)
- orange spot
- four regular ladder
Basic ertanel features



Narrow Barred Spanish Mackeral
- Numberous wavy bands on side
- forked tail

White-Edged Lyretail
- Lunate tail shaped tail with white margin

Peacock Grouper
- Broad blue on rear dorsal, anal, pectoral and caudal fin

Midnight Snapper
- Dark bodied with pale spots/lines across trunk
- Larbe eye with gold iris
- Looks sad

Slender Pinjalo
- Exactly the same as pinjalo snapper, but no yellow ventral fins

Yellow Tuna

Humpback snapper
- forked tail with rounded lobes
- humped forhead and concave slope from eye (hældning fra øjet)

African Pompano
- Long pointy fin
- strong eyebrown line over eye

Black Saddle Coral Grouper
- Grey / olive body with dark fins and black saddle

Chocolate Grouper
- Dark spot above gill cover
- 7-8 dark bars om the side

Smalltooth Emperor
- Dark streaks radiate from lower quater of eye

Black Snapper
- Mumerous blothes on body
- dull gold iris
- black caudal fin

White Spotted Grouper
- scattered white blotches

Camouflage Grouper
- black blotch at caudal fin

Spangled Empereror
- Blue Streaks on cheeks

Orange Striped Emperor
- one yellow stripe from gill plate to caudal fin

Bigeye Trevally
- White tip on fore lobe dorsal fin
- Small black spot on upper end of gill cover

Leopard Coral Grouper
- Blue ring around eye
- Blue margin on caudal fin
- blue spots

Yellow-Edged Lyretail
- Pectoral, dorsal, anal, lunate shaped tail with yellow margins

Potato Grouper
- Look like a potato
- Spoke like markings radiating from eye

Thumbprint Emperor
- Dark blotch on middle of side

Barrramundi
- white /greenish with numerous dark spots widely scattered

Black Jack
- long dorsal fin and pelvic fin
- A row of diamand shapes from middle of trunk to caudal fin

Orange Spotted trevally
- orange spots on the side

Almaco Jack
- Band that runs from lip across eyes to front dorsal fin

Wahoo
- Elongated pointed snout
- numerous lines on body
Humpnose Bigeye Bream
- large eye with steep sloped forehead

Coral Grouper
- rounded caudel fin
- purplish oloration towards posterior end

Spotted Coral Grouper

Onespotted snapper
- May display one small spot towards rear of trunk
Double Lined Mackeral
- Double lateral line