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35 Cards in this Set
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What are the defining features of wrasse (labridae)? |
- swim with pectoral fins - blunt teeth used for crushing shells - thick lips for protection when feeding on shelled/spined prey |
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Thicklip Wrasse Heligymnus Melapterus |
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Cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus |
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Red breasted Wrasse Cheilinus Fasciatus |
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Slingjaw Wrasse Epibulus insidiator |
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Butterflyfish (Chaetodontidae) |
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What are the defining features of butterfly fish (chaetodontidae)? |
- small bristle like teeth for feeding on algae and small inverts - slender pointed mouths - strongly associated with hard corals - lack preopercular spines |
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Angel fish (Pomacanthidae) |
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What are the defining features of angel fish (pomacanthidae)? |
- similar morphology to butterfly fish but v diff ecological role - feed on sponges - preopercular spines present |
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Batfish (Ephippidae) |
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What are the defining features of batfish (ephippidae)? |
- long fixed pelvic fins - often school but also found in pairs - feed on macro algae and small inverts |
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Squirrel/soldier fish Holocentridae |
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What are the defining features of squirrel/soldier fish (holocentridae)? |
- large eyes (nocturnal) - small groups seen inactive near branching and playing corals during day - nocturnal predators feed on inverts - primary and secondary dorsal fins present |
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Rabbit fish Siganidae |
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What are the defining features of rabbit fish (siganidae)? |
- key grazers of turf algae and phytoplankton - extendable fin spines equipped with venom glands - important prey species for large predators - often in pairs sometimes in large groups |
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Triggerfish Balistidae |
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What are the defining features of triggerfish (balistidae)? |
- large blunt teeth used for crushing - highly valuable predator of large slow moving inverts - locking dorsal spine system used as a predator defensive mechanism during night |
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Porcupine fish/puffer fish Diodontidae/tetradontidae |
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What are the defining features of pufferfish/porcupinefish (terradontidae/diodontidae)? |
- large teeth plates used to crush shells - able to rapidly inflate with water intake - lack pelvic fins - porcupine - spines present - both secrete TDT when inflated/attacked |
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What are the defining features of snappers (lutjanidae)? |
- feed on wide range of soft bodied inverts and small fish - sharp teeth - snouts lack scales (unlike heamullidae) - v-shaped operculum - premaxilla visible and in line with eye (unlike lethrinidae & heamullidae) |
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Mangrove snapper Lutjanus Argentimaculatus |
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Brown stripe snapper Lutjanus Vitta |
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Russel snapper Black spot snapper Lutjanus Russellii |
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Mangrove snapper
Lutjanus Argentimaculatus |
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Sweetlips Haemullidae |
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What are the defining features of sweetlips (haemullidae)? |
- feed on large inverts in benthic region - large lips - scales present on entire head - downward facing mouth - pharyngeal teeth (produce loud noise when eating) |
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Emperor fish Lethrinidae |
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What are the defining features of emperor fish (lethrinidae)? |
- mesopredators - feed on range of soft bodied inverts and small fish - pre-maxilla not visible when mouth closed - eye further back and up than snappers - operculum/pre-operculum shape less defined than snapper |
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What are the defining features of carangidae (trevally/scad)? |
Highly variable morphology but commonly shared features below: - forked caudal fin - rigid, fixed dorsal fin - reduced secondary dorsal and anal fins, often with serrated appearance - rigid and streamlined pectoral fins - only extended when turning |
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Orange spot trevally Flavocaranx Bajad |
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Gold spotted trevally Turrum fulvogattatum |
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Herring scad Alepas vari |
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Longfin trevally
Atropus armutus |
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Rainbow runner Elagatis bipunnilata |
