Truk Lagoon fish ID

[doctormike]

Hi,

Cross posted from "Name that Critter", but I figured I might get more local knowledge here...

I went to Truk Lagoon this year (AWESOME trip!), and added a number of fish to my fish database. I had never been in the Pacific before (other than California and Seattle area), so many of these are new to me. I got the Humann and DeLoach "Reef Fish" book, and I was able to identify most of them, but there were some that I just wasn't sure about. Any ideas? Thanks!

Here are the photos: Truk Lagoon fish ID

Mike

 

[agilis]

Just off the top of my head, I think the first fish is a dwarf angel, a Centropyge, and the last almost certainly a squirrelfish.

 

[doctormike]

Thanks! The last one is certainly red with big eyes.... I agree. Couldn't find a squirrelfish with those markings, but could be a color variant or just a local version.

 

[agilis]

Possibly a Longjawed Squirrelfish, Sargocentron spiniferon. Dwarf angel possibly C. fisheri.

 

[doctormike]

Definitely agree about the Squirrelfish. Thanks!

Don't think that the first one is a Dwarf Angel - all of the photos that I see of that fish are mostly orange. My fish #1 really looks more like a Damselfish, and it has those facial markings.

 

[Killerflyingbugs]

1 is a damselfish

2 looks like a kind of dart fish

3 is a blue spot puffer Canthigaster solandri

4, 5, 6, idk

7 is a juvenile red stripe wrasse Halichoeres biocellatus pic up-side down

8 looks like a snapper

9 yellow spot trevally , Carangoides fulvoguttatus

10, 11 damselfish

12 Sabre squirrelfish Sargocentron spiniferum

 

[doctormike]

1 is a damselfish

2 looks like a kind of dart fish

3 is a blue spot puffer Canthigaster solandri

4, 5, 6, idk

7 is a juvenile red stripe wrasse Halichoeres biocellatus pic up-side down

8 looks like a snapper

9 yellow spot trevally , Carangoides fulvoguttatus

10, 11 damselfish

12 Sabre squirrelfish Sargocentron spiniferum

Awesome, thanks!

Funny about #7... Normally eyes are more topside on that sort of fish and it never occurred to me that it was upside down. No WONDER I couldn't find anything with an ocellated spot on the ventral surface! LOL...

Mike

 

[Killerflyingbugs]

no problem