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Hi:

On our Honeymoon (cruise of the south Caribbean & 3 days at Hyatt Dorado in Puerto Rico) Jami & I took a scuba diving excursion with Sea Ventures in Eastern Puerto Rico, and snorkeled in northern Puerto Rico near the beach where a wall of boulders break the force of the Atlantic's waves and create a nice sheltered cove along the beach of the resort.

I'm putting together a photo/scrap book with the new bookmaking service called Blurb, and I'd like to find out fish species some of these are.

Since I'm not a Premium member but I'll post as best I can:

Is this a particular type of coral?

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What about this one?



Is this a wrasse or parrot fish? What type?



What kind of tangs are these?



What kind of tang is this one?



This is a colorful fish; blue front, black-bordered white stripe (vertical), yellow body. What is it?



I think this one is a Palometa.



This little green fish was cute.



So was this one:



This odd looking fish didn't like being followed. At one point it popped it's dorsal fin up at me. I think these 2 pics are of the same type of fish.





This looks to be some type of Grunt but not a species I could find online or in my fish cards.



Another presumed grunt of some sort, but which?



Is this a Flounder or a Sole?



Thanks for any help, folks. I'm trying to slowly learn some Florida/Caribbean fish, and naturally in our honeymoon memory book I'd like to do better than 'hey, look at this green fish!'

Richard.

I'm not going to be much help here, especially because I'm a bit more familiar with Pacific fish species. But there are a couple of pictures which I think I can come close on.

The invertebrates in your first two photos look like Gorgonians, or sea fans. I'm fairly certain that the first one is, and the second photo could well be a sea fan, too.

Farther down, I can tell you that the two tang photo shows an Acanthurus species, but I'm not sure which. Acanthurus bahianus looks like the tang in the next photo.

The fish in the last picture is a flounder, I'm pretty sure of that one.

Hopefully that will give you a bit of a start!

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Thanks. Someone notified me pic #6 is a blue-head wrasse, Thalassoma bifasciatum, and a search online showed pics that look just like it. She also agreed that's a flounder, not a sole. She said most flounder are left-eyed and most sole right-eyed.

She thought fish #12 was a barred grunt but the pics I get Googling for the species look much different from that one; in fact, they look different than the blue-striped and French grunts I'm more used to seeing in large public aquaria (which have much larger mouths).

Richard.

Some further assistance re your photos:

Pic #4 : Halichoeres biocellatus wrasse, reaches 10 cm. This is an immature specimen.

Pic #5: I concur with Sirbooks that they're likely to be Acanthurus bahianus. The blue anal fin and the black mark covering the caudal peduncle 'scalpels' is the giveaway here. Reaches 30 cm in length.

Pic #6: Hmm, more interesting this one. If that white flash on the tail is a genuine feature of the fish, and not a 'trick of the light' artefact, then you have Acanthurus blochii, which reaches 42 cm.

Pic #7: Thalassoma bifacsiatum, the Bluehead Wrasse, and possibly a 'supermale' specimen to boot. Females are yellow, males are greenish, and dominant 'supermales' have an intensely blue head. Reaches 15 cm.

Pic #8 : You have a choice here. It's definitely a member of the Genus Trachinotus, which belongs to the Family Carangidae (Jacks). To tell which species, however, will probably need dissection by a trained ichthyologist, as the members of this Genus are very similar visually. Possibilities include Trachinotus goodei (reaches 32 cm) or Trachinotus baillonii (reaches 60 cm).

Pic #9 : Probably (if my Burgess' Mini-Atlas is correct) Halichoeres bivittatus, which despite its name only has one stripe (or at least only one I can find). Another wrasse, reaches 22 cm.

Pic #10 : With all that red and green colouration, I'd say, though I'd be wary of this one as there are other possibilities, that this is Halichoeres chierchiae. Reaches 20 cm.

Pic #11 : Got me on this one I'm afraid.

Pic #12 : Ditto. Though I'm interested to find out what this is myself.

Pic #13 : I'm tempted to say that this is actually a Snapper, not a Grunt. Though the body shape matches that of the Genus Haemulon well, the body pattern is radically different from anyHaemulon I know, all of whose striped members possess horizontal stripes. It's more likely in my book to be a Lutjanus species, which makes it a Snapper, and several of these have vertical stripes. Can't find it in the Burgess book though ...

Pic #14 : This one IS a Snapper - Lutjanus ehrenbergii, reaching 30 cm. That big black blotch under the soft dorsal fin is diagnostic of the species.

Hope this little lot helps!


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Are these the only 2 that still need IDs?






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