fish
Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...
recorded from the
Coral Sea
The Coral Sea () is a marginal sea of the South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified as an interim Australian bioregion. The Coral Sea extends down the Australian northeast coast. Most of it is protected by the Fre ...
, bordering
Australia
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,
Papua New Guinea
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Vanuatu
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and
New Caledonia
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scientific names
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ranges
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Leviticus
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. Ranges specified may not be the entire known range for the species, but should include the known range within the waters surrounding of the bordering land masses.
List ordering and
taxonomy
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Fishbase
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Synonyms
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Geographical scope
The
International Hydrographic Organization
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defines the limits of the Coral Sea as follows:
''On the North.'' The South coast of
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu
Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea).
It is a simplified version of ...
from the entrance to the Bensbak River (141°01'E) to Gado-Gadoa Island near its Southeastern extreme (), down this meridian to the 100 fathom line and thence along the Southern edges of Uluma (Suckling) Reef and those extending to the Eastward as far as the Southeast point of Lawik Reef () off Tagula Island Vanatinai">/nowiki>Vanatinai.html" ;"title="Vanatinai.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Vanatinai">/nowiki>Vanatinai">Vanatinai.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Vanatinai">/nowiki>Vanatinai/nowiki>, thence a line to the Southern extreme of Rennell Island and from its Eastern point to Cape Surville, the Eastern extreme of San Cristobal Island [Makira], Solomon Islands, Solomons; thence through Nalongo and Nupani, Nupani, the Northwestern of the
Santa Cruz Islands
The Santa Cruz Islands are a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean, part of Temotu Province of the nation of Solomon Islands discovered by the Spaniards. They lie approximately 250 miles (400 km) to the southeast of the Solomon Islands ...
() to the Northernmost Island of the Duff or Wilson Group ().
''On the Northeast.'' From the Northernmost island of the Duff or Wilson Group through these islands to their Southeastern extreme, thence a line to Mera Lava,
New Hebrides
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Islands [
Vanuatu
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] () and down the Eastern coasts of the islands of this Group to Anatom, Aneityum Island () in such a way that all the islands of these Groups, and the straits separating them, are included in the Coral Sea.
''On the Southeast.'' A line from the Southeastern extreme of Aneityum Island to Southeast (Nokanhui) Islets () off the Southeast extreme of
New Caledonia
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, thence through the East point of
Middleton Reef
Middleton Reef is a coral reef in the Coral Sea. It is separated by a deep oceanic pass some 47 km wide from nearby Elizabeth Reef, forming part of the Lord Howe Rise underwater plateau. It is around 230 km from Lord Howe Island and 5 ...
to the Eastern extreme of
Elizabeth Reef
Elizabeth Reef, located at is a coral reef in the Coral Sea. The reef is separated by a deep oceanic pass, some 47 km wide, from nearby Middleton Reef, both of which are part of the underwater plateau known as the Lord Howe Rise. It i ...
() and down this meridian to Latitude 30° South.
''On the South.'' The parallel of 30° South to the Australian coast.
''On the West.'' The eastern limit of the
Arafura Sea
The Arafura Sea (or Arafuru Sea) lies west of the Pacific Ocean, overlying the continental shelf between Australia and Western New Guinea (also called Papua), which is the Indonesian part of the Island of New Guinea.
Geography
The Arafura Sea is ...
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Class Chondrichthyes
Order Hexanchiformes
Family Hexanchidae - Sixgill and sevengill sharks
*Bluntnose sixgill shark ''Hexanchus griseus'' (Bonnaterre, 1788) (Worldwide in tropical and tepmperate seas)
Family Heterodontidae – Hornsharks, Port Jackson sharks, bullhead sharks.
*Zebra bullhead shark '' Heterodontus zebra'' (Gray,1831) (Northern Australia to southern Japan)
Order
Orectolobiformes
Carpet sharks are sharks classified in the order Orectolobiformes . Sometimes the common name "carpet shark" (named so because many species resemble ornately patterned carpets) is used interchangeably with "wobbegong", which is the common name ...
Family Orectolobidae – Wobbegongs
*Tasselled wobbegong ''
Eucrossorhinus dasypogon
The tasselled wobbegong (''Eucrossorhinus dasypogon'') is a species of carpet shark in the family Orectolobidae and the only member of its genus. It inhabits shallow coral reefs off northern Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands. Reachin ...
'' Regan, 1908 (Northern Australia and New Guinea)
*Banded wobbegong ''
Orectolobus ornatus
The ornate wobbegong (''Orectolobus ornatus'') is a species of carpet shark that lives in Australia and possibly other countries in the Western Pacific Ocean. It is coloured golden brown, yellow-green and blueish-grey, and it grows to maximum . ...
'' (De Vis, 1883) (Northern Australia, New Guinea and southern Japan)
*Northern wobbegong ''
Orectolobus wardi
The northern wobbegong (''Orectolobus wardi'') is a carpet shark in the family Orectolobidae, found in the western Pacific Ocean around Australia, between latitudes 9° S to 26° S. It reaches a length of 63 cm.
Captivity
Northern wobbe ...
'' Whitley, 1939 (Northern Australia)
Family
Hemiscylliidae
The Hemiscylliidae are a family of sharks in the order Orectolobiformes, commonly known as longtail carpet sharks and sometimes as bamboo sharks. They are found in shallow waters of the tropical Indo-Pacific.
They are relatively small sharks ...
- Bamboo sharks
*Brownbanded bamboo shark ''
Chiloscyllium punctatum
The brownbanded bamboo shark (''Chiloscyllium punctatum''), is a bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae that can be found in the Indo-West Pacific from Japan to northern Australia, between latitudes 34° N and 26° S. It is regularly bred in ...
'' Mueller and Henle, 1838 (East coast of Indian peninsula to northern Australia and north to Japan)
*Epaulette shark ''
Hemiscyllium ocellatum
The epaulette shark (''Hemiscyllium ocellatum'') is a species of longtailed carpet shark, family Hemiscylliidae, found in shallow, tropical waters off Australia and New Guinea (and possibly elsewhere). The common name of this shark comes from t ...
'' (Bonnaterre, 1788) (Northern Australia and New Guinea)
*Speckled catshark ''
Hemiscyllium trispeculare
The speckled carpetshark, ''Hemiscyllium trispeculare'', is a bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae found around north and west Australia between latitudes 8° S and 22° S, and longitude 114° E and 152° E. Its length is up to 79 c ...
'' Richardson, 1843 (Northern Australia)
Family
Stegostomatidae
The zebra shark (''Stegostoma tigrinum'') is a species of carpet shark and the sole member of the family Stegostomatidae. It is found throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific, frequenting coral reefs and sandy flats to a depth of . Adult zebra sharks ...
- Leopard sharks
*Zebra shark ''
Stegostoma fasciatum
The zebra shark (''Stegostoma tigrinum'') is a species of carpet shark and the sole member of the family Stegostomatidae. It is found throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific, frequenting coral reefs and sandy flats to a depth of . Adult zebra sharks ...
'' (Hermann, 1783) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Australia and New Caledonia)
Family
Ginglymostomatidae
The Ginglymostomatidae are a cosmopolitan family of carpet sharks known as nurse sharks, containing four species in three genera. Common in shallow, tropical and subtropical waters, these sharks are sluggish and docile bottom-dwellers.
- Nurse sharks
*Tawny nurse shark ''
Nebrius ferrugineus
The tawny nurse shark (''Nebrius ferrugineus'') is a species of carpet shark in the family Ginglymostomatidae, and the only extant member of the genus ''Nebrius''.
It is found widely along coastlines in the Indo-Pacific, preferring reefs, sa ...
'' (Lesson, 1830) (Indo-West Pacific from East Africa and the Red Sea to the Society Islands)
Family
Rhincodontidae
The whale shark (''Rhincodon typus'') is a slow-moving, filter-feeding carpet shark and the largest known extant fish species. The largest confirmed individual had a length of .McClain CR, Balk MA, Benfield MC, Branch TA, Chen C, Cosgrove J, Do ...
- Whale sharks
*Whale shark ''
Rhincodon typus
The whale shark (''Rhincodon typus'') is a slow-moving, filter-feeding carpet shark and the largest known extant fish species. The largest confirmed individual had a length of .McClain CR, Balk MA, Benfield MC, Branch TA, Chen C, Cosgrove J, Do ...
'' (Smith, 1828) (Circumglobal in warm temperate seas)
Order
Lamniformes
The Lamniformes (, from Greek ''lamna'' "fish of prey") are an order (biology), order of sharks commonly known as mackerel sharks (which may also refer specifically to the family Lamnidae). It includes some of the most familiar species of sharks, ...
Family Odontaspididae - Sand tiger sharks
*Grey nurse shark '' Carcharias taurus'' Rafinesque, 1810 syn. ''Eugomphodus taurus'' (Around the Australian mainland, also widespread overseas) (Tropical and temperate waters of most seas but absent from eastern and cantral Pacific Ocean)
Family
Alopiidae
Thresher sharks are large lamniform sharks of the family Alopiidae found in all temperate and tropical oceans of the world; the family contains three extant species, all within the genus ''Alopias''.
All three thresher shark species have been l ...
- Thresher sharks
*Small tooth thresher shark ''
Alopias pelagicus
The pelagic thresher (''Alopias pelagicus'') is a species of thresher shark, family Thresher shark, Alopiidae; this group of sharks is characterized by the greatly elongated upper lobes of their caudal fins. The pelagic thresher occurs in the tro ...
'' Nakamura, 1935 (Circumtropical)
Family
Lamnidae
The Lamnidae are the family of mackerel sharks known as white sharks. They are large, fast-swimming predatory fish found in oceans worldwide, though prefer environments with colder water. The name of the family is formed from the Greek word ''lam ...
– Makos, Mackerel sharks
*Shortfin mako ''
Isurus oxyrinchus
The shortfin mako shark (; ; ''Isurus oxyrinchus''), also known as the blue pointer or bonito shark, is a large mackerel shark. It is commonly referred to as the mako shark, as is the longfin mako shark (''Isurus paucus''). The shortfin mako can ...
'' Rafinesque, 1809 (Circumglobal in temperate and tropical seas)
Order
Carcharhiniformes
Carcharhiniformes , the ground sharks, are the largest order of sharks, with over 270 species. They include a number of common types, such as catsharks, swellsharks, and the sandbar shark.
Members of this order are characterized by the presenc ...
Family '' Scyliorhinidae'' - Catsharks
*Marbled catshark '' Atelomycterus macleayi'' Whitley, 1939 (Northern Australia)
*Reticulated swellshark '' Cephaloscyllium fasciatum'' Chen, 1966 (Northern Australia and South China Sea)
Family Carcharhinidae – Whaler sharks, requiem sharks
*Silvertip shark '' Carcharhinus albimarginatus'' (Rueppell, 1837) (Tropical Indopacific and eastern Pacific)
*Bignose shark '' Carcharhinus altimus'' (Springer, 1950) (Circumglobal in temperate and tropical seas)
*Grey reef shark ''
Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos
The grey reef shark (''Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos'', sometimes misspelled ''amblyrhynchus'' or ''amblyrhinchos'') is a species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae. One of the most common reef sharks in the Indo-Pacific, it is found as ...
'' (Bleeker, 1856) (East Africa and Red Sea east to Hawaii and Pitcairn Island)
**Pigeye shark ''
Carcharhinus amboinensis
The pigeye shark or Java shark (''Carcharhinus amboinensis'') is an uncommon species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae, found in the warm coastal waters of the eastern Atlantic and western Indo-Pacific. It prefers shallow, murky env ...
'' (Mueller and Henle, 1839) (East Africa to Australia)
*Bronze whaler '' Carcharhinus brachyurus'' (Günther,1870) (Jurien Bay, Western Australia to Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, and northern Tasmania) (Along coastal margins in most tropical and temperate seas. Apparently absent in western Atlantic)
*Long nose grey shark ''
Carcharhinus brevipinna
The spinner shark (''Carcharhinus brevipinna'') is a species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae, named for the spinning leaps it makes as a part of its feeding strategy. This species occurs in tropical and warm temperate waters worldw ...
'' (Mueller and Henle, 1839) (Continental margins of all tropical and warm temperate seas except the eastern Pacific)
*Whitecheek shark ''
Carcharhinus dussumieri
The whitecheek shark or widemouth blackspot shark (''Carcharhinus dussumieri'') is a requiem shark of the family Carcharhinidae, found in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean between latitudes 34°N and 25°S. It can reach a length of 1 m. It feed ...
'' (Valenciennes, 1839) (Continental margins from the
Persian Gulf
The Persian Gulf ( fa, خلیج فارس, translit=xalij-e fârs, lit=Gulf of Persis, Fars, ), sometimes called the ( ar, اَلْخَلِيْجُ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a Mediterranean sea (oceanography), me ...
to northern Australia and north to Japan)
*Silky shark ''
Carcharhinus falciformis
The silky shark (''Carcharhinus falciformis''), also known by numerous names such as blackspot shark, gray whaler shark, olive shark, ridgeback shark, sickle shark, sickle-shaped shark and sickle silk shark, is a species of requiem shark, in the f ...
'' (Bibron, 1839) (Circumtropical, oceanic and coastal)
*Bull shark ''
Carcharhinus leucas
The bull shark (''Carcharhinus leucas''), also known as the Zambezi shark (informally zambi) in Africa and Lake Nicaragua shark in Nicaragua, is a species of requiem shark commonly found worldwide in warm, shallow waters along coasts and in riv ...
'' (Valenciennes, 1839) (Continental coasts of all tropical and subtropical seas, sometimes far up rivers)
*Blacktip shark '' Carcharhinus limbatus'' (Valenciennes, 1839)
*Oceanic whitetip shark ''
Carcharhinus longimanus
The oceanic whitetip shark (''Carcharhinus longimanus''), also known as shipwreck shark, Brown Milbert's sand bar shark, brown shark, lesser white shark, nigano shark, oceanic white-tipped whaler, and silvertip shark, is a large pelagic requiem ...
Carcharhinus melanopterus
The blacktip reef shark (''Carcharhinus melanopterus'') is a species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae, which can be easily identified by the prominent black tips on its fins (especially on the first dorsal fin and its caudal fin). ...
'' (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824) (Ind-west and central Pacific from East Africa and the Red Sea to Hawaii and French Polynesia)
*Black whaler '' Carcharhinus obscurus'' (Lesueur, 1815) (Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, primarily on continental shelves)
*Sandbar shark ''
Carcharhinus plumbeus
The sandbar shark (''Carcharhinus plumbeus'') also known as the brown shark or thickskin shark, is a species of requiem shark, and part of the family Carcharhinidae, native to the Atlantic Ocean and the Indo-Pacific. It is distinguishable by it ...
'' (Nardo, 1827) (Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas)
*Blackspot shark '' Carcharhinus sealei'' (Pietschmann, 1916) (East Africa to Northern Australia)
*Spot-tail shark '' Carcharhinus sorrah'' (Valenciennes 1837) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Solomon and Santa Cruz Islands)
*Tiger shark ''
Galeocerdo cuvier
The tiger shark (''Galeocerdo cuvier'') is a species of requiem shark and the last extant member of the family Galeocerdonidae. It is a large macropredator, capable of attaining a length over . Populations are found in many tropical and tempera ...
'' (Peron and Lesueur, 1822) (Circumtropical)
*Sicklefin lemon shark ''
Negaprion acutidens
The sicklefin lemon shark (''Negaprion acutidens'') or sharptooth lemon shark is a species of requiem shark belonging to the family Carcharhinidae, widely distributed in the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific. It is closely related to the better ...
'' (Rueppell, 1837) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Society Islands)
Family
Hemigaleidae
The weasel sharks are a family, the Hemigaleidae, of ground sharks found from the eastern Atlantic Ocean to the continental Indo-Pacific. They are found in shallow coastal waters to a depth of .
Most species are small, reaching no more than ...
Sphyrna lewini
The scalloped hammerhead (''Sphyrna lewini'') is a species of hammerhead shark in the family Sphyrnidae. It was originally known as ''Zygaena lewini''. The Greek word ''sphyrna'' translates into "hammer" in English, referring to the shape of thi ...
'' (Griffith and Smith, 1834) (Worldwide in tropical and warm temperate seas)
*''
Sphyrna mokarran
The great hammerhead (''Sphyrna mokarran'') or great hammerhead shark is the largest species of hammerhead shark, belonging to the family Sphyrnidae, attaining an average length of and reaching a maximum length of . It is found in tropical and w ...
''
*''
Eusphyra blochii
The winghead shark (''Eusphyra blochii'') is a species of hammerhead shark, and part of the family Sphyrnidae. Reaching a length of , this small brown to gray shark has a slender body with a tall, sickle-shaped first dorsal fin. Its name comes fr ...
''
Order
Torpediniformes Fernando de Buen y Lozano was a Spanish ichthyologist and oceanographer
Oceanography (), also known as oceanology and ocean science, is the scientific study of the oceans. It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of topics, including e ...
Family
Hypnidae
''Hypnos monopterygius'', also known as the coffin ray or Australian numbfish, is a species of electric ray endemic to Australia, where it is common in inshore waters shallower than . It is the sole member of its genus ''Hypnos'', and family ...
– Coffin rays, electric rays
*Coffin ray '' Hypnos monopterygium'' (Shaw and Nodder, 1795) (Broome, Western Australia to Caloundra, Queensland)(Western Australia, South Australia and southeastern Australia, including southern Queensland and adjacent Great Barrier Reef)
Order
Rajiformes
Rajiformes is one of the four orders in the superorder Batoidea, flattened cartilaginous fishes related to sharks. Rajiforms are distinguished by the presence of greatly enlarged pectoral fins, which reach as far forward as the sides of the head ...
Family Rhinobatidae – Guitarfishes
*Common shovelnose ray '' Glaucostegus typus'' (Anonymous ennett 1830) syn. ''Rhinobatos batillum'' Whitley, 1939 ((as ''R. batillum'')Northern Australia between Shark Bay, Western Australia and the Capricorn Group, occasionally near sand cays on the Great Barrier Reef)
Order
Myliobatiformes
Myliobatiformes () is one of the four orders of batoids, cartilaginous fishes related to sharks. They were formerly included in the order Rajiformes, but more recent phylogenetic studies have shown the myliobatiforms to be a monophyletic grou ...
Family Dasyatidae – Stingrays
*Kuhl's stingray '' Dasyatis kuhlii'' (Mueller and Henle, 1841) (East Africa and Red Sea to Samoa and north to Japan)
*Blue-spotted stingray ''
Taeniura lymma
The bluespotted ribbontail ray (''Taeniura lymma'') is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae. Found from the intertidal zone to a depth of , this species is common throughout the tropical Indian and western Pacific Oceans in nearsh ...
'' (Forsskal, 1775) (East Africa to western Pacific and Great Barrier Reef)
*Black-blotched stingray ''
Taeniura meyeni
The round ribbontail ray (''Taeniurops meyeni'') is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, found throughout the nearshore waters of the tropical Indo-Pacific, as well as off islands in the eastern Pacific. It is a bottom-dwelling i ...
'' Mueller an Henle, 1841 (Indo-Pacific)
*Thorny ray '' Urogymnus africanus'' (Bloch and Schneider 1801) (East Africa to northern Australia and the Marshall Islands)
Family Myliobatidae – Eagle rays
*Spotted eagle ray ''
Aetobatus narinari
The spotted eagle ray (''Aetobatus narinari'') is a cartilaginous fish of the eagle ray family, Myliobatidae. As traditionally recognized, it is found globally in tropical regions, including the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Recent autho ...
'' (Euphrasen, 1790) (Cosmopolitan in tropical to warm temperate seas)
Family
Mobulidae
The Mobulidae (manta rays and devilfishes) are a family of rays consisting mostly of large species living in the open ocean rather than on the sea bottom.
Taxonomy
The Mobulidae have been variously considered a subfamily of the Myliobatidae by ...
- Mantas and devil rays
*Manta ''
Manta birostris
The giant oceanic manta ray, giant manta ray, or oceanic manta ray (''Mobula birostris'') is a species of ray in the family Mobulidae, and the largest type of ray in the world. It is circumglobal and is typically found in tropical and subtropical ...
'' (Donndorff, 1798) (Circumtropical)
*Devil ray ''
Mobula tarapacana
The Chilean devil ray (''Mobula tarapacana''), also known as the box ray, greater Guinean mobula, sicklefin devil ray or the spiny mobula, is a species of ray in the family Mobulidae. It is often observed worldwide, basking just below the surfac ...
'' (Philippi, 1892) (Indo-Pacific and eastern Atlantic, possibly circumtropical)
Albulidae
Albulidae is a family of fish, commonly known as the bonefishes, that are popular as game fish in Florida, select locations in the South Pacific and the Bahamas (where two bonefish are featured on the 10-cent coin) and elsewhere. The family is s ...
- Bonefishes
*Pacific bonefish '' Albula argentea'' (Forster and Bloch in Schneider, 1801) (Indo-Pacific)
Order
Anguilliformes
Eels are ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes (), which consists of eight suborders, 19 families, 111 genera, and about 800 species. Eels undergo considerable development from the early larval stage to the eventual adult stage ...
Family
Moringuidae
The Moringuidae are a small family of eel
Eels are ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes (), which consists of eight suborders, 19 families, 111 genera, and about 800 species. Eels undergo considerable development from the e ...
- Worm eels
*Slender worm-eel '' Moringua ferruginea'' (Bliss, 1883) (East Africa to Easter Island and north to Ryukyu Islands)
Family
Chlopsidae
The Chlopsidae, or false morays, are a family of eels found in coral reefs worldwide. As their name suggests, they somewhat resemble moray eels in appearance. However, they are smaller than true morays, ranging from in length.
Genera
The family ...
- False morays
*Grey reef eel ''
Kaupichthys diodontus
The common false moray, false moray, grey reef eel, or plain false moray,
Family
Muraenidae
Moray eels, or Muraenidae (), are a family of eels whose members are found worldwide. There are approximately 200 species in 15 genera which are almost exclusively marine, but several species are regularly seen in brackish water, and a few are f ...
– Moray eels
*Seychelles moray ''
Anarchias seychellensis
''Anarchias seychellensis'' is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded b ...
'' Smith, 1962 (Indo-Pacific)
*Starry moray ''
Echidna nebulosa
The snowflake moray (''Echidna nebulosa''), also known as the clouded moray among many vernacular names, is a species of marine eel of the family Muraenidae. It has blunt teeth ideal for its diet of crustaceans, a trait it shares with the zebra m ...
Gymnothorax chilospilus
The lipspot moray eel (''Gymnothorax chilospilus''), also known as the textile moray, white-lipped moray or white-lipped reef eel, is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
'' Bleeker, 1865 (Indo-Pacific)
*Australian moray '' Gymnothorax cribroris'' Whitley, 1932 (Great Barrier Reef and Western Australia)
*Stout moray '' Gymnothorax eurostus'' (Abbott, 1860) (Indo-Pacific, antitropical. Only in southern part of Great Barrier Reef.)
*Blackspotted moray '' Gymnothorax favagineus'' Bloch and Scneider, 1801 (Western Pacific to East Africa)
*Darkspotted moray ''
Gymnothorax fimbriatus
''Gymnothorax'' is a genus of fish in the family Muraenidae found in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean. With more than 120 species, it the most speciose genus of moray eels.
Smith (2012) noted that ''Gymnothorax'' as currently recognized is pol ...
'' (Bennett, 1832) (Indo-Pacific)
*Yellowmargin moray '' Gymnothorax flavimarginatus'' (Rueppell, 1830) (Indo-Pacific and tropical east Pacific)
*Freckled moray ''
Gymnothorax fuscomaculatus
The brown-spotted moray (''Gymnothorax fuscomaculatus'') is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
*Slendertail moray ''
Gymnothorax gracilicauda
The slendertail moray eel (''Gymnothorax gracilicauda'') is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the ...
'' Jenkins, 1903 (Islands and reefs of Oceania to the Great Barrier Reef)
*Giant moray ''
Gymnothorax javanicus
The giant moray (''Gymnothorax javanicus'') is a species of moray eel and a species of marine fish in the family Muraenidae. In terms of body mass, it is the largest moray eel; however, the slender giant moray is the largest in terms of body leng ...
'' (Bleeker, 1859) (Indo-Pacific to Hawaii)
*Blackpearl moray ''
Gymnothorax margaritophorus
The blotch-necked moray eel (''Gymnothorax margaritophorus'') is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
'' Bleeker, 1864 (Indo-Pacific)
*Dwarf moray ''
Gymnothorax melatremus
''Gymnothorax melatremus'', the blackspot moray, dirty yellow moray or dwarf moray, is a moray eel from the Indo-Pacific
The Indo-Pacific is a vast biogeographic region of Earth.
In a narrow sense, sometimes known as the Indo-West Pacific ...
Gymnothorax meleagris
The turkey moray (''Gymnothorax meleagris''),also known as the guineafowl moray or as the white-mouth/whitemouth moray is a species of marine fish in the Family (biology), family Muraenidae.
Description
The turkey moray is a medium size moray wh ...
'' (Shaw and Nodder, 1795) (Indo-Pacific)
*Yellowmouth moray '' Gymnothorax nudivomer'' (Playfair and Guenther, 1867) (Hawaii and western Pacific to East Africa)
*Highfin moray '' Gymnothorax pseudothyrsoideus'' (Bleeker, 1852) (Western Pacific to India and Oman)
*Banded moray ''
Gymnothorax rueppelliae
''Gymnothorax rueppelliae'', the banded moray, banded reef-eel, Rüppell's moray, Rüppell's moray eel, black barred eel, yellow-headed moray eel or yellow-headed moray, is a moray eel found in tropical coral reefs. ''Gymnothorax rueppelliae'' is ...
Gymnothorax thyrsoideus
The greyface moray eel, also called the freckled moray, slender moray, or white-eyed moray, ''Gymnothorax thyrsoideus'', is a species of marine fish in the family Muraenidae.
Description
The Greyface moray is a medium-sized fish that is most comm ...
'' (Richardson, 1845) syn. ''Siderea thyrsoidea'' (Richardson, 1845) ((as S. Thyrsoidea)Central and western Pacific)
*Undulated moray '' Gymnothorax undulatus'' (Lacepede, 1803) (Indo-Pacific)
*Barredfin moray '' Gymnothorax zonipectis'' Seale, 1906 (Indo-Pacific)
*Ribbon eel '' Rhinomuraena quaesita'' Garman, 1888 (Central and western Pacific to islands of the western Indian Ocean)
*Longtail moray ''
Strophidon sathete
The slender giant moray or Gangetic moray, ''Strophidon sathete'', is the longest member of the family of moray eels. It is in the genus ''Strophidon''. The longest recorded specimen was caught in 1927, on the Maroochy River in Queensland; it me ...
'' (Hamilton, 1822) (Western Pacific to East Africa and the Red Sea)
*Peppered moray '' Siderea picta'' (Ahl, 1789) (Indo-Pacific and islands of the tropical eastern Pacific)
*Marbled moray ''
Uropterygius marmoratus
''Uropterygius marmoratus'' is a moray eel found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded ...
'' (Lacepede, 1803) (Central and western Pacific)
Family
Ophichthidae
Ophichthidae is a family of fish in the order Anguilliformes, commonly known as the snake eels. The term "Ophichthidae" comes from Greek ''ophis'' ("serpent") and ''ichthys'' ("fish"). Snake eels are also burrowing eels. They are named for thei ...
– Snake eels, worm eels
*Sharpsnout snake eel '' Apterichtus klazingai'' (Weber, 1913) (East Africa to the Marshall Islands)
*Stargazer snake eel '' Brachysomophis cirrocheilos'' (Bleeker, 1857) (Indo-Pacific)
*Crocoddile snake eel '' Brachysomophis crocodilinus'' (Bennett, 1831) (Indo-Pacific and Eastern Pacific)
*Black striped snake eel '' Callechelys catostoma'' (Forster in Blich and Schneider, 1801) (Indonesia to Society Islands)
*Marbled snake eel '' Callechelys marmorata'' (Bleeker, 1853) (East Africa to Society Islands)
*Culverin '' Leiuranus semicinctus'' (Lay and Bennett, 1839) (East Africa to Polynesia)
*Slender snake eel '' Muraenichthys macropterus'' Bleeker 1857 (East Africa to the Society Islands)
*Harlequin snake eel ''
Myrichthys colubrinus
''Myrichthys colubrinus'', the banded snake eel, ringed snake eel or harlequin snake eel, is a snake eel from the Indo-Pacific. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of in length.
The ringed snake eel resem ...
'' (Boddaert, 1781) (Red Sea to the Society Islands)
*Spotted snake eel ''
Myrichthys maculosus
''Myrichthys maculosus'', commonly known as the tiger snake eel, the ocellate snake eel or the spotted snake eel, is a species of fish in the family Ophichthidae, native to the Indo-Pacific. It is occasionally encountered in the aquarium trade. ...
'' (Cuvier, 1817) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Polynesia)
*Johnston snake eel '' Schultzidia johnstonensis'' (Schultz and Woods, 1949) (Indo-Pacific)
Family
Congridae
The Congridae are the family of conger and garden eels. Congers are valuable and often large food fishes, while garden eels live in colonies, all protruding from the sea floor after the manner of plants in a garden (thus the name). The family inc ...
– Conger eels
*Speckled garden eel ''
Gorgasia
''Gorgasia'' is one of the two genera that belong to the subfamily ''Heterocongrinae'' (common name: garden eels). This genus is classified by the behavioral pattern of burrowing 75% of their bodies in the sandy substrate they live in and protrud ...
'' sp. (Western Pacific including Coral Sea, Guam and Marshall Islands)
*Black edged conger ''
Conger cinereus
The longfin African conger (''Conger cinereus'') or blacklip conger, is an eel of the family (biology), family Congridae, found in the Indo-Pacific oceans from the Red Sea and East Africa to the Marquesas Islands, Marquesas and Easter Islands, Eas ...
'' Rueppell, 1830 (East Africa and Red Sea to Easter Island)
*Spotted garden eel ''
Heteroconger hassi
The spotted garden eel (''Heteroconger hassi'') is a heteroconger belonging to the family Congridae. It is native to the Indo-Pacific.
Description
The spotted garden eel is a small fish that can reach a maximum length of . Its body is anguiform ...
'' (Klausewitz and Eibl-Ebesfeldt, 1959) (Red Sea to Samoa and Line Islands, north to Ryukyu Islands)
Order
Clupeiformes
Clupeiformes is the order of Actinopterygii, ray-finned fish that includes the herring family, Clupeidae, and the anchovy family, Engraulidae. The group includes many of the most important Forage fish, forage and food fish.
Clupeiformes are phy ...
Family
Clupeidae
Clupeidae is a family of ray-finned fishes, comprising, for instance, the herrings, shads, sardines, hilsa, and menhadens. The clupeoids include many of the most important food fishes in the world, and are also commonly caught for production of ...
Herklotsichthys quadrimaculatus
''Herklotsichthys quadrimaculatus'', also known as the bluestripe herring, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Clupeidae
Clupeidae is a family of ray-finned fishes, comprising, for instance, the herrings, shads, sardines, hilsa, ...
'' (Rueppell, 1837) (East Africa to Samoa and Marshall Islands, Hawaii)
*Blue-backed sprat ''
Spratelloides delicatulus
''Spratelloides delicatulus'', the blue sprat, also known as the delicate round herring, blueback sprat, or piha, is a type of sprat-like fish of Indo-Pacific distribution.
See also
*''Kudoa thyrsites
''Kudoa thyrsites'' is a myxosporean ...
'' (Bennett, 1831) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Society Islands)
Order
Gonorhynchiformes
The Gonorynchiformes are an order (biology), order of Actinopterygii, ray-finned fish that includes the important food source, the milkfish (''Chanos chanos'', family Chanidae), and a number of lesser-known types, both ocean, marine and freshwat ...
Family
Chanidae
Chanidae is a family of fishes which has a number of fossil genera and one monotypic extant genus which contains the milkfish (''Chanos chanos'').
Taxonomy
The family Chanidae is subdivided into two subfamilies, the Rubiesichthyinae, which comp ...
- Milkfish
*Milkfish ''
Chanos chanos Chanos may refer to:
* ''Chanos'' (fish), a genus of milkfish
* Chanos-Curson, a commune of the Drôme, a department in southeastern France
* Chanos, Zamora, a municipality in Spain
* George Chanos (born 1958), American attorney and politician
...
'' (Forskal, 1775) (East Africa to Polynesia)
Order
Siluriformes
Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of Actinopterygii, ray-finned fish. Named for their prominent barbel (anatomy), barbels, which resemble a cat's whiskers, catfish range in size and behavior from ...
Family Plotosidae - Eeltail catfishes
*White-lipped catfish '' Paraplotosus albilabris'' (Valenciennes, 1840) (Indonesia, Melanesia and northern Australia)
*Striped catfish ''
Plotosus lineatus
''Plotosus lineatus'', common name striped eel catfish, is a species of eeltail catfishes belonging to the family Plotosidae.
Description
''Plotosus lineatus'' can reach a maximum length of 32 cm (13 in). The body is brown with cream- ...
'' (Thunberg, 1787) (East Africa and Red Sea to Samoa)
Order
Aulopiformes
Aulopiformes is a diverse order of marine ray-finned fish consisting of some 15 extant and several prehistoric families with about 45 genera and over 230 species. The common names grinners, lizardfishes and allies, or aulopiforms are someti ...
Family
Synodontidae
The Synodontidae or lizardfishes(or typical lizardfish to distinguish them from the Bathysauridae and Pseudotrichonotidae) are benthic (bottom-dwelling) marine and estuarine bony fishes that belong to the aulopiform fish order, a diverse group o ...
– Lizardfishes
*Slender lizardfish ''
Saurida gracilis
The gracile lizardfish (''Saurida gracilis'') is a species of lizardfish which lives mainly in the Indo-Pacific region.
Information
The gracile lizardfish is known to be found in a marine environment within a reef-associated area. They live in a ...
'' (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824) (Indo-Pacific)
*Two-spot lizardfish ''
Synodus binotatus
The two-spot lizardfish (''Synodus binotatus'') is a species of lizardfish that lives mainly in the Indo-Pacific Ocean.
Information
The two-spot lizardfish is known to be found in a marine environment within a reef-associated area. This species ...
Synodus dermatogenys
The sand lizardfish, clearfin lizardfish or variegated lizardfish (''Synodus dermatogenys'') is a species of lizardfish that lives mainly in the Indo-Pacific.
Description
''Synodus dermatogenys'' is found in a marine environment within a reef-a ...
Synodus doaki
The arrowtooth lizardfish (''Synodus doaki'') is a lizardfish of the family ''Synodontidae'', found in isolate locations across the southwestern Pacific (namely Queensland, the Coral Sea, New Caledonia, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island
Norf ...
'' Russell and Cressey, 1979 (Hawaii, New Zealand, eastern Australia, Japan and East Africa)
*Javelinfish ''
Synodus jaculum
The lighthouse lizardfish ''(Synodus jaculum)'' is a species of lizardfish that lives mainly in the Indo-Pacific.
Information
The lighthouse lizardfish is known to live in a marine environment within a depth range of about 2–100 meters. They ...
'' Russell and Cressey, 1979 (Scattered records from the Line Islands in the central Pacific to Natal and the Comoro Islands)
*Redmarbled lizardfish '' Synodus rubromarmoratus'' Russell and Cressey, 1979 (Only known from Taiwan, Philippines and the Great Barrier Reef)
*Reef lizardfish, variegated lizardfish ''
Synodus variegatus
''Synodus'' is a genus of fish in the family Synodontidae found in Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.
Species
Currently, 46 species in this genus are recognized:
* ''Synodus binotatus'' L. P. Schultz, 1953 (two-spot lizardfish)
* ''Synodus ...
'' (Lacepede, 1803) (Tropical Australia south to Jutten Bay, Western Australia and Merimbula, New South Wales. Also Lord Howe Island and widespread in the Indo-Pacific region) (Indo-Pacific)
*Snakefish '' Trachinocephalus myops'' (Forster in Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (Indo-Pacific and Atlantic, tropical to warm temperate)
Order
Ophidiiformes
Ophidiiformes is an order of ray-finned fish that includes the cusk-eels (family Ophidiidae), pearlfishes (family Carapidae), viviparous brotulas (family Bythitidae), and others. Members of this order have small heads and long slender bodies. Th ...
Family
Ophidiidae
The cusk-eel family, Ophidiidae, is a group of marine bony fishes in the Ophidiiformes order. The scientific name is from the Greek ''ophis'' meaning "snake", and refers to their eel-like appearance. True eels, however, diverged from other ray ...
Brotula multibarbata
''Brotula barbata'', commonly known as the goatsbeard brotula, is a species of cusk-eel
The cusk-eel family, Ophidiidae, is a group of marine bony fishes in the Ophidiiformes order. The scientific name is from the Greek ''ophis'' meaning "sna ...
'' Temminck and Schlegel, 1846 (Indo-Pacific)
Family
Carapidae
Pearlfish are marine fish in the ray-finned fish family Carapidae. Pearlfishes inhabit the tropical waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans at depths to , along oceanic shelves and slopes. They are slender, elongated fish with no sca ...
Bythitidae
The viviparous brotulas form a family, the Bythitidae, of ophidiiform fishes. They are known as viviparous brotulas as they generally viviparity, bear live young, although there are indications that some species (at least ''Didymothallus crinicep ...
- Cuskeels
*Slimy cuskeel '' Brosmophyciops pautzkei'' Schultz, 1960 (Red Sea to Samoa and north to the Ryukyu Islands)
*Yellow cuskeel ''
Dinematichthys
''Dinematichthys'' is a genus of viviparous brotulas. Its name comes from Greek, meaning ''two-filamented fish'' (''di'' means two, ''nema'' filament and ''ichthys'' fish).
Species
There are currently two recognized species in this genus:
* ''Di ...
'' sp. (Indo-Pacific)
Order
Batrachoidiformes
Batrachoididae is the only family in the ray-finned fish order Batrachoidiformes . Members of this family are usually called toadfish, or "frogfish": both the English common name and scientific name refer to their toad-like appearance (''batrakh ...
Family
Batrachoididae
Batrachoididae is the only family in the ray-finned fish order Batrachoidiformes . Members of this family are usually called toadfish, or "frogfish": both the English common name and scientific name refer to their toad-like appearance (''batrak ...
– Frogfishes, toadfishes
*Banded toadfish '' Halophryne diemensis'' (Lesueur, 1824) (Northern Australia from Shark Bay, Western Australia to Heron Island, Queensland and throughout the Indo-Malayan Archipelago)
Order
Lophiiformes
The anglerfish are fish of the teleost order Lophiiformes (). They are bony fish named for their characteristic mode of predation, in which a modified luminescent fin ray (the esca or illicium) acts as a lure for other fish. The luminescence c ...
Family Antennariidae – Anglerfishes
*Freckled anglerfish ''
Antennarius coccineus
''Abantennarius coccineus'', the scarlet or freckled frogfish, is a species of frogfish originally classified as ''Chironectes coccineus'' and ''Antennarius coccineus''. It lives within tropical waters and has a central distribution being around ...
'' (Cuvier in Lesson, 1831) (Indo-Pacific eastward to the Americas)
*White-finger anglerfish '' Antennarius nummifer'' (Cuvier, 1817) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Society Islands, and north to Japan)
*Painted anglerfish '' Antennarius pictus'' (Shaw and Nodder, 1794) (East Africa to the Society and Hawaiian Islands)
*Striate anglerfish, striped anglerfish Antennarius striatus (Shaw and Nodder 1794) (Tropical Australia south to Wollagong, New South Wales and Geraldton Western Australia)
*Tuberculated anglerfish '' Antennarius tuberosus'' (Cuvier, 1817) (East Africa to Samoa and the Hawaiian Islands)
*Sargassum fish '' Histrio histrio'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (Indo-West Pacific and tropical Atlantic)
Order
Gobiesociformes
Clingfishes are fishes of the family Gobiesocidae, the only family in the order Gobiesociformes. These fairly small to very small fishes are widespread in tropical and temperate regions, mostly near the coast, but a few species in deeper seas or ...
Family
Gobiesocidae
Clingfishes are fishes of the family Gobiesocidae, the only family in the order Gobiesociformes. These fairly small to very small fishes are widespread in tropical and temperate regions, mostly near the coast, but a few species in deeper seas or ...
– Clingfishes, shore eels
*Urchin clingfish ''
Diademichthys lineatus
''Diademichthys lineatus'', commonly known as the long-snout clingfish or urchin clingfish, is a species of marine fish in the family Gobiesocidae.
Description
The long-snout clingfish is a small type of fish, which can grow up to .
It has an e ...
Discotrema
''Discotrema'' is a genus of clingfishes found on reefs in the Indo-Pacific where they live on crinoid
Crinoids are marine animals that make up the class Crinoidea. Crinoids that are attached to the sea bottom by a stalk in their adult form a ...
'' sp. (Indo-Pacific)
Order
Beloniformes
Beloniformes is an order composed of six families (and about 264 species) of freshwater and marine ray-finned fish:
* Adrianichthyidae (ricefish and medakas)
* Belonidae (needlefish)
* Exocoetidae (flyingfishes)
* Hemiramphidae (halfbeaks) ...
Family
Exocoetidae
The Exocoetidae are a family of marine fish in the order Beloniformes class Actinopterygii, known colloquially as flying fish or flying cod. About 64 species are grouped in seven to nine genera. While they cannot fly in the same way a bird ...
- Flying fishes
*Sutton's flying fish '' Cypselurus suttoni'' (Whitley and Colefax, 1938) (Central and western Oceania)
Family
Hemiramphidae
Hemiramphidae is a family of fishes that are commonly called halfbeaks, spipe fish or spipefish. They are a geographically widespread and numerically abundant family of epipelagic fish inhabiting warm waters around the world. The halfbeaks are ...
- Garfishes, halfbeaks
*Barred garfish ''
Hemiramphus far
''Hemiramphus far'', the halfbeak, black-barred halfbeak, black-barred garfish, barred halfbeak, barred garfish or spotted halfbeak, is a schooling marine fish in the family Hemiramphidae. It has an Indo-Pacific distribution and has invaded the ...
'' (Forsskal, 1775) (East Africa and Red Sea to Samoa)
*Dussumier's garfish '' Hyporhamphus dussumieri'' (Valenciennes, 1846) (Seychelles to the Tuamotu Archipelago)
Family
Belonidae
Needlefish (family Belonidae) or long toms are piscivorous fishes primarily associated with very shallow marine habitats or the surface of the open sea. Some genera include species found in marine, brackish, and freshwater environments (e.g., ' ...
- Longtoms or needlefishes
*Flat tailed longtom ''
Platybelone argalus
The keeltail needlefish (''Platybelone argalus''), sometimes called the keeled needlefish, is a tropical fish of the family Belonidae. It was described by the French naturalist Charles Alexandre Lesueur in 1821.
Description
Keeltail needlefish, ...
platyura'' (Bennett, 1832) (Circumtropical)
*Slender longtom '' Strongylura leiura'' (Bleeker, 1851) (East Africa to Fiji)
*Crocodile longtom ''
Tylosurus crocodilus
The houndfish (''Tylosurus crocodilus'') is a game fish of the family Belonidae. It is the largest member of its family, growing up to in length and in weight. It is also often called the crocodile needlefish.
Description
While the houndfish h ...
crocodilus'' (Peron and Lesueur, 1821) (Tropical Atlantic and Indo-Pacific)
Order
Atheriniformes
The Atheriniformes, also known as the silversides, are an order (biology), order of ray-finned fishes that includes the Atherinidae, Old World silversides and several less-familiar families, including the unusual Phallostethidae. The order inclu ...
Family
Atherinidae
The Old World silversides are a family, Atherinidae, of fish in the order Atheriniformes. Atherinidae are abundant and considered bony fish (teleost) that are widespread globally, living in rivers, estuaries, and coastal waters. They occur worldw ...
– Hardyheads, silversides
*Robust hardyhead '' Atherinomorus lacunosus'' (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (Indo-Pacific)
*Barnes' hardyhead '' Hypoatherina barnesi'' Schultz, 1953 (Western Pacific to East Africa)
Order
Beryciformes
The Beryciformes are a poorly-understood order of carnivorous ray-finned fishes consisting of 7 families, 30 genera, and 161 species. They feed on small fish and invertebrates. Beyond this, little is known about the biology of most member speci ...
Family
Monocentridae
Pinecone fishes are small and unusual marine fish of the family ''Monocentridae''. The family contains just four species in two genera, one of which is monotypic. Their distribution is limited to tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-Pac ...
– Pineapplefishes
*Australian pineapplefish, knightfish Cleidopus gloriamaris De Vis, 1882 (Shark Bay, Western Australia to Great Australian Bight, Western Australia and Eden, New South Wales to Capricorn Group, Queensland.) (East and west coasts of Australia)
Family
Holocentridae
Holocentridae is a family of ray-finned fish, the only family of the order Holocentriformes. The members of the subfamily Holocentrinae are typically known as squirrelfish, while the members of Myripristinae typically are known as soldierfish.Lie ...
- Squirrelfishes and soldierfishes
*Shadowfin soldierfish '' Myripristis adusta'' Bleeker, 1851 (Indo-Pacific)
*Bigscale soldierfish '' Myripristis berndti'' Jordan and Evermann, 1903 (Indo-Pacific and tropical eastern Pacific)
*Yellowfin soldierfish '' Myripristis chryseres'' Jordan and Evermann, 1903 (Scattered records from Natal to Hawaii)
*Doubletooth soldierfish '' Myripristis hexagona'' (Lacepede, 1802) (East Africa to Samoa)
*Epaulette soldierfish '' Myripristis kuntee'' (Cuvier, 1831) (Indo-Pacific)
*Blotcheye soldierfish '' Myripristis murdjan'' (Forsskal, 1775) (Indo-Pacific)
*Scarlet soldierfish '' Myripristis pralinia'' Cuvier, 1829 (Society Islands to Islands of west Indian Ocean)
*Lattice soldierfish '' Myripristis violacea'' Bleeker, 1851 (Indo-Pacific)
*Whitetip soldierfish '' Myripristis vittata'' Valenciennes, 1831 (Western Indian Ocean to the islands of Oceania)
*Yellowstriped squirrelfish ''
Neoniphon aurolineatus
''Neoniphon aurolineatus'', more commonly known as the yellowstriped squirrelfish or gold-lined squirrelfish, is a member of the family Holocentridae. It has a wide range throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans stretching east from Mauritius to ...
Neoniphon opercularis
''Neoniphon opercularis'', the blackfin squirrelfish, also known as the mouth-fin squirrelfish or clearfin squirrelfish, is a species of squirrelfish found in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean from East Africa as far east as New Caledonia. It ...
Neoniphon sammara
''Neoniphon sammara'', the sammara squirrelfish, also known as the blood-spot squirrelfish, slender squirrelfish, spotfin squirrelfish, armed squirrel-fish or javelin squirrelfish, is a species squirrelfish found in the Indian Ocean and Pacific ...
Sargocentron caudimaculatum
''Sargocentron caudimaculatum'', the silverspot squirrelfish or whitetail squirrelfish, is a reef-associated member of the family Holocentridae. It is native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans from East Africa to Japan and northern Australia and a ...
Sargocentron diadema
''Sargocentron diadema'', known commonly as the crowned squirrelfish, is a member of the family Holocentridae in the order Beryciformes. Squirrelfish in general are large, active, nocturnal fish which are usually red in color.Bailey, M. and G. Sa ...
'' (Lacepede, 1801) (Indo-Pacific)
*Samurai squirrelfish '' Sargocentron ittodai'' (Jordan and Fowler, 1903) (Scattered localities in the Indo-Pacific)
*Blackspot squirrelfish '' Sargocentron melanospilos'' (Bleeker, 1858) (East Africa to Samoa)
*Smallmouth squirrelfish '' Sargocentron microstoma'' (Guenther, 1859) (Islands of the western Indian Ocean to Oceania excepting Hawaii)
*Peppered squirrelfish'' Sargocentron punctatissimum'' (Cuvier, 1839) (Indo-Pacific)
*Redcoat ''
Sargocentron rubrum
''Sargocentron rubrum'', also known as redcoat, is a member of the family Holocentridae of the order Beryciformes
The Beryciformes are a poorly-understood order of carnivorous ray-finned fishes consisting of 7 families, 30 genera, and 161 sp ...
'' (Forsskal, 1775) (Red Sea and East Africa to the western Pacific but absent from oceanic islands)
*Sabre squirrelfish ''
Sargocentron spiniferum
''Sargocentron spiniferum'', common name sabre squirrelfish, giant squirrelfish and spiny squirrelfish, is a large Indo-Pacific species of squirrelfish belonging to the family Holocentridae.
Description
''Sargocentron spiniferum'' is the larges ...
Syngnathiformes
The Syngnathiformes are an order of ray-finned fishes that includes the trumpetfishes and seahorses.FishBase (2005)Order Summary for Syngnathiformes Version of 2005-FEB-15. Retrieved 19 Aug 2008.
These fishes have elongated, narrow, bodies sur ...
Family
Aulostomidae
The trumpetfishes are three species of highly specialized, tubularly-elongated marine fishes in the genus ''Aulostomus'', of the monogeneric family Aulostomidae. The trumpetfishes are members of the order Syngnathiformes, together with the seaho ...
- Trumpetfishes
*Trumpetfish ''
Aulostomus chinensis
The Chinese trumpetfish, ''Aulostomus chinensis'', is a demersal marine fish belonging to the family Aulostomidae.
Description
''Aulostomus chinensis'' is a medium-sized fish which grows up to 80 cm in length. Its body is elongated and comp ...
'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (Indo-Pacific and eastern Pacific)
Family
Fistulariidae
The cornetfishes or flutemouths are a small family, the Fistulariidae, of extremely elongated fishes in the order Syngnathiformes. The family consists of a single genus, ''Fistularia'', with four species, found worldwide in tropical and subtropic ...
Centriscidae
The Centriscidae are a family of fishes from the order Syngnathiformes which includes the snipefishes, shrimpfishes, and bellowfishes. A small family, consisting of only about a dozen marine species, they are of an unusual appearance, as reflecte ...
- Razorfishes and shrimpfishes
*Razorfish ''
Aeoliscus strigatus
''Aeoliscus strigatus'', also known as the razorfish, jointed razorfish or coral shrimpfish, is a member of the family Centriscidae of the order Syngnathiformes. This unique fish adopts a head-down tail-up position as an adaptation for hiding amo ...
'' (Guenther, 1860) (Northern Indian Ocean and western Pacific)
Family
Solenostomidae
''Solenostomus'', also known as the ghost pipefishes, false pipefishes or tubemouth fishes, is a genus of fishes in the order Syngnathiformes. ''Solenostomus'' is the only genus in the family Solenostomidae, and includes six currently recognized ...
Solenostomus paradoxus
The ornate ghost pipefish or harlequin ghost pipefish, ''Solenostomus paradoxus'', is a false pipefish of the family (biology), family Solenostomidae. The species name comes from the Greek ''paradoxos'', referring to this fish's unusual external ...
'' (Pallas, 1870)
Family
Syngnathidae
The Syngnathidae is a family of fish which includes seahorses, pipefishes, and seadragons (''Phycodurus'' and ''Phyllopteryx''). The name is derived from grc, σύν (), meaning "together", and (), meaning "jaw". The fused jaw is one of the tra ...
Choeroichthys sculptus
''Choeroichthys sculptus'', the sculptured pipefish, is a species of marine fish of the family Syngnathidae.
Description
''Choeroichthys sculptus'' is a small secretive species with a short snout, and with body and tail sections which are appr ...
'' (Guenther, 1870) (East Africa to Polynesia)
*Brown banded pipefish ''
Corythoichthys amplexus
''Corythoichthys amplexus'', known commonly as the brown-banded pipefish, is a species of marine fish in the family Syngnathidae.Lieske & Myers,''Coral reef fishes'',Princeton University Press, 2009,
Description Anatomy
The brown-banded pipefis ...
'' Dawson and Randall, 1975 (Western Indian Ocean to Samoa, and north to the Ryukyu Islands)
*Banded pipefish ''
Corythoichthys intestinalis
''Corythoichthys intestinalis'', known commonly as the scribbled pipefish, is a species of marine fish in the family Syngnathidae.Lieske & Myers,''Coral reef fishes'',Princeton University Press, 2009, Other common names used include banded pipef ...
'' (Ramsay, 1881) (Philippines to northern Australia, eastward to Samoa and Tonga)
*Schultz's pipefish ''
Corythoichthys schultzi
Schultz's pipefish, ''Corythoichthys schultzi'', is a pipefish of the family Syngnathidae.
Etymology
The genus name Corythoichthys derives from the Greek words ''coris'' meaning "helmet" and ''ichthus'' meaning "fish". The specific name ''sch ...
'' Herald, 1953 (Red Sea to Society Islands)
*Ringed pipefish '' Doryrhamphus dactyliophorus'' (Bleeker, 1853) (East Africa and Red Sea to Samoa)
*Bluestripe pipefish ''
Doryrhamphus excisus
''Doryrhamphus excisus'' is a species of flagtail pipefish from the genus '' Doryrhamphus''. Its common names include blue-striped pipefish and blue-and-orange cleaner pipefish. The fish is found throughout much of the Indo-Pacific and tropical E ...
excisus'' Kaup, 1856 (Indo-Pacific)
*Janss's pipefish '' Doryrhamphus janssi'' (Herald and Randall, 1972) (Northern Australia and Solomon Islands north to Philippines and South China Sea)
*Brock's pipefish '' Halicampus brocki'' (Herald, 1953) (Western Pacific from northern Australia to the Ryukyu Islands and eastward to the Marshall Islands)
*Ornate pipefish '' Halicampus macrorhynchus'' Bamber, 1915 (Red Sea to northern Australia and Melanesia)
*Glittering pipefish '' Halicampus nitidus'' (Guenther, 1873) (Northern Australia to the Ryukyu Islands and eastwards to Fiji)
*Spotted seahorse ''
Hippocampus kuda
''Hippocampus kuda'' is a species of seahorse, also known as the common seahorse, estuary seahorse, yellow seahorse or spotted seahorse. The common name sea pony has been used for this species under its synonym ''Hippocampus fuscus''.
Physical d ...
'' Bleeker, 1852 (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Hawaiian and Society Islands)
*Shortnose pipefish ''
Micrognathus andersonii
''Micrognathus'' is a genus of pipefishes, with these currently recognized species:
* '' Micrognathus andersonii'' ( Bleeker, 1858) (shortnose pipefish)
* '' Micrognathus brevicorpus'' R. Fricke, 2004
* '' Micrognathus brevirostris'' (Rüppell, ...
'' (Bleeker, 1858) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa and north to Japan)
*Short tailed pipefish '' Trachyrhamphus bicoarctatus'' (Bleeker, 1857) (East Africa and the Red Sea to New Caledonia and north to Japan)
Order
Scorpaeniformes
The Scorpaeniformes are a diverse order of ray-finned fish, including the lionfishes and sculpins, but have also been called the Scleroparei. It is one of the five largest orders of bony fishes by number of species, with over 1,320.
They are ...
Family
Dactylopteridae
The flying gurnards are a family, Dactylopteridae, of marine fish notable for their greatly enlarged pectoral fins. As they cannot literally fly or glide in the air (like flying fish), an alternative name preferred by some authors is helmet gurna ...
- Helmet gurnards
*Helmet gurnard '' Dactyloptena orientalis'' (Cuvier, 1829) (East Africa to Polynesia)
Family
Scorpaenidae
The Scorpaenidae (also known as scorpionfish) are a family of mostly marine fish that includes many of the world's most venomous species. As their name suggests, scorpionfish have a type of "sting" in the form of sharp spines coated with venom ...
– Scorpionfishes
*Cockatoo waspfish ''
Ablabys taenianotus
''Ablabys taenianotus'', the cockatoo waspfish, is a small fish species that belongs to the scorpionfishes family Scorpaenidae.
Description
This fish can be up to in length. The body compressed laterally, endowed with a dorsal fin starting fro ...
'' (Cuvier, 1829) (Andaman sea to Fiji and north to Japan)
*Dwarf lionfish '' Dendrochirus brachypterus'' (Cuvier, 1829) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa and Tonga and north to the Philippines)
*Zebra lionfish '' Dendrochirus zebra'' (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825) ( East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa)
*Caledonian stinger '' Inimicus caledonicus'' (Sauvage, 1878) (Andaman sea to Australia and New Caledonia)
*Mozambique scorpionfish ''
Parascorpaena mossambica
''Parascorpaena mossambica'', the Mozambique scorpionfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. This species is native to the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean to Micronesia, although ...
'' (Peters, 1855) (East Africa to Society Islands)
*Ragged-finned firefish ''
Pterois antennata
''Pterois antennata'', the spotfin lionfish, banded lionfish, broadbarred lionfish, broadbarred firefish, raggedfinned firefish, raggedfinned scorpionfish or roughscaled lionfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sc ...
'' (Bloch, 1787) (East Africa to southeastern Polynesia)
*Red firefish, turkeyfish ''
Pterois volitans
The red lionfish (''Pterois volitans'') is a venomous coral reef fish in the family Scorpaenidae, order Scorpaeniformes. It is mainly native to the Indo-Pacific region, but has become an invasive species in the Caribbean Sea, as well as along ...
'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (Western Australia and Malaysia to southeastern Polynesia and north to Japan)
*Whiteface waspfish '' Richardsonichthys leucogaster'' (Richardson, 1848) (India to northern Australia and Melanesia)
*Weedy scorpionfish ''
Rhinopias aphanes
''Rhinopias aphanes'', the lacy scorpionfish, weedy scorpionfish or Merlet's scorpionfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. This species is found in the Western Pacific. It occasion ...
'' Eschmeyer, 1973 (Northeastern Australia, New Caledonis, New Guinea and north to Japan)
*Longfingered scorpionfish '' Scorpaenodes albaiensis'' (Evermann and Seale, 1907) (Western Pacific to East Africa)
*Guam scorpionfish '' Scorpaenodes guamensis'' (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Pitcairn Group)
*Hairy scorpionfish '' Scorpaenodes hirsutus'' (Smith, 1957) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Polynesia)
*Shortfinned scorpionfish '' Scorpaenodes parvipinnis'' (Garrett, 1864) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Polynesia)
*Shore scorpionfish '' Scorpaenodes littoralis'' (Tanaka, 1917) (Indo-Pacific)
*Blotchfin scorpionfish '' Scorpaenodes varipinnis'' Smith, 1957 (East Africa to Micronesia)
*False stonefish '' Scorpaenopsis diabolus'' Cuvier, 1829 (East Africa and the Red Sea to Polynesia)
*Smallscale scorpionfish ''
Scorpaenopsis oxycephala
''Scorpaenopsis oxycephala'', the tasseled scorpionfish, or small-scaled scorpionfish, is a species of venomous marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. It has a wide distribution in the Indian and Pacific ...
'' (Bleeker, 1849) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the central Pacific)
*Raggy scorpionfish '' Scorpaenopsis venosa'' (Cuvier, 1829) (East Africa to central Pacific)
*Yellow-spotted scorpionfish ''
Sebastapistes cyanostigma
''Sebastapistes cyanostigma'', the yellowspotted scorpionfish, ''coral scorpionfish or pink and yellow scorpionfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. It is found in the Indo-Pacific. ...
'' (Bleeker, 1856) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa)
*Barchin scorpionfish '' Sebastapistes strongia'' (Cuvier, 1829) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Society Islands)
*Estuarine stonefish ''
Synanceia horrida
''Synanceia horrida'', the estuarine stonefish, hollow-cheek stonefish, horrid stonefish, rough stonefish or true stonefish, is a species of venomous, marine ray-finned fish, a stonefish belonging to the subfamily Synanceiinae which is classifi ...
'' (Linnaeus, 1766) (India to Australia and north to China)
*Reef stonefish ''
Synanceia verrucosa
''Synanceia verrucosa'', the reef stonefish or just stonefish, is a species of venomous, marine ray-finned fish, a stonefish belonging to the subfamily Synanceiinae which is classified as being within the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfish ...
'' Bloch and Schneider, 1801 (East Africa and the Red Sea to southeastern Polynesia)
*Leaf scorpionfish '' Taenianotus triacanthus'' Lacepede, 1802 (East Africa to the Galapagos)
Family Caracanthidae - Crouchers, orbicular velvetfishes
*Spotted croucher '' Caracanthus maculatus'' (Gray, 1831) (East Indies and Australia to southeastern Polynesia, and north to Japan)
*Coral croucher '' Caracanthus unipinna'' (Gray, 1831) (East Africa to the Taumotus, and north to Japan)
Family
Aploactinidae
Little velvetfishes or simply velvetfishes are a family, the Aploactinidae, of marine ray-finned fishes classified within the order Scorpaeniformes. They are small fish that have skin with a velvet texture. They live on the sea bottom close to t ...
– Velvetfishes
*Threefin velvetfish '' Neoaploactis tridorsalis'' Eschmeyer and Allen, 1978 (Known only from Rottnest Island and Shark Bay in Western Australia and One Tree Island in the Capricorn Group of the southern Great Barrier Reef)
Family Platycephalidae – Flatheads
*Dwarf flathead '' Onigocia oligolepis'' (Regan, 1908) (Indo-West Pacific)
*Sand flathead '' Thysanophrys arenicola'' Schultz, 1966 (East Africa to the Marshall Islands)
*Longsnout flathead '' Thysanophrys chiltonae'' Schultz, 1966 (East Africa to Marquesas Islands)
*Fringelip flathead '' Sunagocia otaitensis'' (Cuvier, 1829) syn. ''Thysanophrys otaitensis'' (East Africa to the Taumotus)
Order
Perciformes
Perciformes (), also called the Percomorpha or Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish. If considered a single order, they are the most numerous order of vertebrates, containing about 41% of all bony fish. Perciformes means ...
Family
Centropomidae
''Centropomus'' is a genus of predominantly marine fish comprising the family Centropomidae. The type species is ''Centropomus undecimalis'', the common snook. Commonly known as snooks or ''róbalos'', the ''Centropomus'' species are native to t ...
- Barramundi
* Sand bass, glasseye perch ''
Psammoperca waigiensis
The Waigieu seaperch (''Psammoperca waigiensis''), or Waigeo barramundi, is a species of seawater, marine fish in family (biology), family Latidae of order (biology), order Perciformes. The only species of genus ''Psammoperca'', it is native to ...
'' (Cuvier, 1829) (East Indies and northern Australia to China)
Family
Serranidae
The Serranidae are a large family of fishes belonging to the order Perciformes. The family contains about 450 species in 65 genera, including the sea basses and the groupers (subfamily Epinephelinae). Although many species are small, in some case ...
– Rockcods, seaperches, groupers
Subfamily
Anthiinae
Anthias are members of the family Serranidae and make up the subfamily Anthiinae. Anthias make up a sizeable portion of the population of pink, orange, and yellow reef fishes seen swarming in most coral reef photography and film. The name Anthi ...
- Anthias
* Waite's splitfin '' Luzonichthys waitei'' (Fowler, 1931) (Philippines, Indonesia and Great Barrier Reef)
* Longfin perchlet '' Plectranthias longimanus'' (Weber, 1913) (Western Pacific to East Africa)
* Dwarf perchlet '' Plectranthias nanus'' Randall, 1980 (Islands of Oceania to Christmas and Cocos-Keeling Islands in the eastern Indian Ocean)
* Redblotch perchlet ''
Plectranthias winniensis
''Plectranthias'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the subfamily Anthiinae, part of the family (biology), family Serranidae, the groupers and sea basses. They are found in the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean.
Spe ...
Pseudanthias bicolor
''Pseudanthias bicolor'', the bicolor anthias or yellowback basslet is a species of marine ray-finned fish from the subfamily Anthiinae of the family Serranidae, the groupers and sea basses. It is from the Indo-Pacific Ocean. It occasionally ...
'' (Randall, 1979) (Hawaii and New Caledonia to the islands of the western Indian Ocean)
* Silverstreak anthias '' Pseudanthias cooperi'' (Regan, 1902) (Line Islands and Samoa west to East Africa)
* Redfin anthias '' Pseudanthias dispar'' (Herre, 1955) (Western Pacific to Samoa and the Line Islands)
* Barrier Reef anthias '' Pseudanthias engelhardi'' (Allen and Starck, 1983) (Known only from Escape Reef, Great Barrier Reef)
* Striped anthias '' Pseudanthias fasciatus'' (Kamohara, 1954) (Southern Japan to the Great Barrier Reef)
* Threadfin anthias '' Pseudanthias huchtii'' (Bleeker, 1857) (Philippines to Vanuatu and the Great Barrier Reef)
* Stocky anthias '' Pseudanthias hypselosoma'' Bleeker, 1878 (Samoa to Maldives)
* Lori's anthias '' Pseudanthias lori'' (Lubbock and Randall, 1976) (French Polynesia to Christmas Island, Indian Ocean)
* Yellowlined anthias '' Pseudanthias luzonensis'' (Katayama and Masuda, 1983) (Philippines, Indonesia and the northern Great Barrier Reef)
* Amethyst anthias '' Pseudanthias pascalus'' (Jordan and Tanaka, 1927) (French Polynesia to Australia, and in the north Pacific from the Marshall Islands to southern Japan)
* Painted anthias '' Pseudanthias pictilis'' (Randall and Allen, 1978) (New Caledonia, Lord Howe Island and the southern Great Barrier Reef)
* Squarespot anthias ''
Pseudanthias pleurotaenia
''Pseudanthias pleurotaenia'' also known as the squarespot anthias, pink square anthias, mirror basslet or squarespot fairy basslet is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the subfamily Anthiinae of the Family (biology), family Serranidae, the ...
'' (Bleeker, 1857) (Philippines south to northern Great Barrier Reef and east to the Marshall Islands and Samoa)
* Redbar anthias '' Pseudanthias rubrizonatus'' (Randall, 1983) (Philippines, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji and Great Barrier Reef)
* Princess anthia '' Pseudanthias smithvanizi'' (Randall and Lubbock, 1981) (Marshall Islands to Christmas and Keeling-Cocos Islands in the eastern Indian Ocean)
* Scalefin anthias '' Pseudanthias squamipinnis'' (Peters, 1855) (Western Pacific to East Africa and the Red Sea)
* Purple anthias '' Pseudanthias tuka'' (Herre and Montalban, 1927) (Philippines to northern Great Barrier Reef)
* Longfin anthias '' Pseudanthias ventralis'' (Randall, 1979) (Great Barrier Reef north to southern Japan, East to the islands of Oceania except Hawaii)
* Hawk anthias '' Serranocirrhitus latus'' (Watanabe, 1949) (Southern Japan, Indonesia, Palau, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and the Great Barrier Reef)
Subfamily
Epinephelinae
Groupers are fish of any of a number of genera in the subfamily Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae, in the order Perciformes.
Not all serranids are called "groupers"; the family also includes the sea basses. The common name "grouper" is u ...
- Rockcods
* Redmouth rockcod '' Aethaloperca rogaa'' (Forsskal, 1775) (Red Sea and coast of East Africa to Kiribati)
* White-lined rockcod '' Anyperodon leucogrammicus'' (Valenciennes, 1828) (Red Sea and East Africa to Samoa and the Marshall Islands)
* Peacock rockcod ''
Cephalopholis argus
''Cephalopholis argus'', the peacock hind, roi, bluespotted grouper, and celestial grouper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a member of the subfamily Epinephelinae, the groupers, and part of the family Serranidae, which also includes the ...
'' Bloch and Schneider, 1801 (Indo-Pacific and Hawaiian Islands)
* Brown-barred rockcod '' Cephalopholis boenak'' (Bloch, 1790) (Western Pacific to East Africa)
* Blue-spotted rockcod ''
Cephalopholis cyanostigma
''Cephalopholis'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, groupers from the subfamily Epinephelinae in the family Serranidae, which also includes the anthias and sea basses. Many of the species have the word "hind" as part of their common name in ...
'' (Valenciennes, 1828) (Philippines to Queensland, west to Thailand and Western Australia)
* Blue-lined rockcod ''
Cephalopholis formosa
''Cephalopholis formosa'', the Bluelined hind or bluelined rockcod is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily Epinephelinae which is in the family Serranidae which also includes the anthias and sea basses. It is found ...
'' (Shaw, 1804) (Western Pacific to Western India)
* Leopard rockcod ''
Cephalopholis leopardus
''Cephalopholis leopardus'', also known as the Leopard grouper or Leopard hind , is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily Epinephelinae which is in the family Serranidae which also includes the anthias and sea basse ...
'' (Lacepede, 1801) (Indo-Pacific)
* Dothead rockcod '' Cephalopholis microprion'' (Bleeker, 1852) (Western Pacific to Andaman Sea)
* Coral cod '' Cephalopholis miniata'' (Forsskal, 1775) (Line Islands in the central Pacific to East Africa and the Red Sea)
* Sixspot rockcod '' Cephalopholis sexmaculata'' (Rueppell, 1830) (Indo-Pacific)
* Tomato rockcod '' Cephalopholis sonnerati'' (Valenciennes, 1828) (Line Islands and Kiribati in central Pacific to East Africa)
* Strawberry rockcod '' Cephalopholis spiloparaea'' (Valenciennes, 1828) (Indo-Pacific)
* Flagtail rockcod ''
Cephalopholis urodeta
''Cephalopholis urodeta'', the darkfin hind, flagtail rockcod, chevron rockcod, duskyfin hind, duskyfin rockcod, flagtail grouper or V-tail grouper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily Epinephelinae which is in t ...
'' (Bloch and Scneider, 1801) (Central and western Pacific)
* Barramundi cod '' Cromileptes altivelis'' (Valenciennes, 1828) (Western Pacific to Nicobar Islands)
* Areolate rockcod '' Epinephelus areolatus'' (Forsskal, 1775) (Western Pacific to East Africa and the Red Sea)
* White-spotted rockcod '' Epinephelus caerulopunctatus'' (Bloch, 1790) (Kiribati and Caroline Islands to East Africa)
* Estuary cod ''
Epinephelus coioides
The orange-spotted grouper (''Epinephelus coioides''), also known as the brown-spotted rockcod, estuary cod, estuary rockcod, goldspotted rockcod, greasy cod, North-west groper, orange spotted cod or blue-and-yellow grouper, is a species of marin ...
'' (Hamilton, 1822) (Western Pacific to western Indian Ocean)
* Coral rockcod '' Epinephelus corallicola'' (Valenciennes, 1828) (Western Pacific)
* Blue Maori '' Epinephelus cyanopodus'' (Richardson, 1846) (Western Pacific to Marshall Islands and Kiribati)
* Black-tipped rockcod '' Epinephalus fasciatus'' (Forsskal, 1775) (Indo-Pacific)
* Flowery cod '' Epinephelus fuscoguttatus'' (Forsskal, 1775) (Marshall Islands and Phoenix Islands to East Africa and the Red Sea)
* Hexagon rockcod '' Epinephelus hexagonatus'' (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (Indo-Pacific)
* Blacksaddle rockcod '' Epinephelus howlandi'' (Guenther, 1873) (Western Pacific from Ryukyu Islands to Great Barrier Reef and east to the Marshalls and Samoa)
* Queensland grouper ''
Epinephelus lanceolatus
The giant grouper (''Epinephelus lanceolatus''), also known as the Queensland grouper, brindle grouper or mottled-brown sea bass, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily Epinephelinae which is part of the family Ser ...
'' (Bloch, 1790) (Indo-Pacific)
* Snubnose rockcod '' Epinephelus macrospilos'' (Bleeker, 1855) (Central western Pacific to Nicobar Islands)
* Trout cod '' Epinephelus maculatus'' (Bloch, 1790) (Western Pacific to Marshall Islands and Samoa)
* Malabar grouper '' Epinephelus malabaricus'' (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (Western Pacific to East Africa and Red Sea)
* Dwarf spotted rockcod ''
Epinephelus merra
The honeycomb grouper (''Epinephelus merra''), also known as black-spotted rock-cod, common birdwire rockcod, dwarf spotted rockcod, dwarf-spotted grouper, honeycomb cod, wire-netted reefcod or wire-netting cod, is a species of marine ray-finned ...
'' Bloch, 1793 (Indo-Pacific)
* Speckled-fin rockcod '' Epinephelus ongus'' (Bloch, 1790) (Caroline Islands and Western Pacific to East Africa)
* Camouflage rockcod ''
Epinephelus polyphekadion
The camouflage grouper (''Epinephelus polyphekadion''), also known as the blue-tailed cod, camouflage rockcod, small-toothed rockcod, smooth flowery rock-cod, snout-spot grouper or snout-spot rock-cod, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a g ...
'' (Bleeker, 1856) (Indo-Pacific)
* Longfin rockcod '' Epinephelus quoyanus'' (Valenciennes, 1830) (Western Pacific to southwest coast of Thailand)
* Chinaman rockcod '' Epinephelus rivulatus'' (Valenciennes, 1830) (Western Pacific and Indian Ocean)
* Sixbar rockcod '' Epinephelus sexfasciatus'' (Valenciennes, 1828) (Indo-Malayan region)
* Four-saddle rockcod '' Epinephelus spilotoceps'' Schultz, 1953 (Line Islands in the central Pacific to East Africa)
* Greasy rockcod '' Epinephelus tauvina'' (Forsskal, 1775) (Indo-Pacific)
* Potato cod ''
Epinephelus tukula
The potato grouper (''Epinephelus tukula''), also called the potato cod or potato bass, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily Epinephelinae which is part of the family Serranidae, which also includes the anthias and ...
'' Morgans, 1959 (Western Pacific to East Africa and the Red Sea)
* Maori cod '' Epinephelus undulatostriatus'' (Peters, 1866) (Southern Great Barrier Reef to New South Wales)
* Thinspine rockcod '' Gracila albomarginata'' (Fowler and Bean, 1930) (Indo-Pacific)
* Squaretail coral trout ''
Plectropomus areolatus
The squaretail coral grouper (''Plectropomus areolatus'') is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily Epinephelinae which is part of the family Serranidae, which also includes the anthias and sea basses.
Description
The ...
'' (Rueppell, 1830) (Marshall Islands and Samoa to the Maldives and Red Sea)
* Chinese footballer ''
Plectropomus laevis
''Plectropomus laevis'', known commonly as the black-saddled coral grouper, cluespotted coral trout, blacksaddled coral trout, blue-spot trout, Chinese footballer, footballer cod, footballer coral trout, oceanic coral trout or tiger trout, is a s ...
Plectropomus leopardus
The leopard coral grouper (''Plectropomus leopardus''), also known as the common coral trout, leopard coral trout, blue-dotted coral grouper or spotted coral grouper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily Epinephel ...
'' (Lacepede, 1802) (Fiji and Caroline Islands to Western Australia)
* Barred-cheek coral trout ''
Plectropomus maculatus
''Plectropomus'', commonly known as the coral groupers, is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, groupers from the subfamily Epinephelinae, part of the Family (biology), family Serranidae, which also includes the Anthiinae, anthias and sea basses. T ...
'' (Bloch, 1790) (Philippines, southeast Asia, Indonesia and Australia)
* Highfin coral trout '' Plectropomus oligacanthus'' (Bleeker, 1854) (Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea, Solomons and north Great Barrier Reef)
* Lyretail trout '' Variola albimarginata'' Baissac, 1953 (Western Pacific to western Indian Ocean)
* Coronation trout ''
Variola louti
The yellow-edged lyretail (''Variola louti'') also known as the yellowedge coronation trout, fairy cod, lunar tail rock cod, lunartailed cod, lyre-tail cod or moontail seabass,, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily ...
'' (Forsskal, 1775) (Indo-Pacific)
Subfamily Grammistinae
Tribe Liopropomini
* Headband perch '' Liopropoma mitratum'' Lubbock and Randall, 1978 (Scattered through Indo-Pacific)
* Manyline perch '' Liopropoma multilineatum'' Randall and Taylor, 1988 (Philippines to the Coral Sea and Fiji)
* Meteor perch '' Liopropoma susumi'' (Jordan and Seale, 1906) (Line Islands and Samoa to East Africa)
* Flathead perch '' Rainfordia opercularis'' McCulloch, 1923 (Queensland to Western Australia)
Tribe Diploprioni
* Arrowhead soapfish ''
Belonoperca chabanaudi
''Belonoperca'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, related to the groupers and included in the subfamily Epinephelinae, part of the family Serranidae, which also includes the anthias and sea basses. They are found in the Indo-Pacific region.
...
'' Fowler and Bean, 1930 (Samoa and Marshall Islands to East Africa)
* Barred soapfish, yellow emperor ''
Diploprion bifasciatum
''Diploprion bifasciatum'', the barred soapfish, also known as the doublebanded soapfish, two banded grouper, two-banded sea perch, two-banded soapfish, yellow emperor or yellow striped grouper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, related to ...
Congrogadinae
Congrogadinae is a subfamily of ray-finned fishes, one of four subfamilies that make up the family Pseudochromidae, these elongated fish are commonly called eel-blennies.
Characteristics
The species in the subfamily Congrogadidae have elongate ...
* Carpet eel blenny ''
Congrogadus subducens
The carpet eel-blenny (''Congrogadus subducens''), also known as the green wolf eel or green wolf eel blenny, is a relatively large species of dottyback found in coastal parts of the Indo-West Pacific, including coral reefs, among rocks, seagrass ...
'' (Richardson, 1843) (Malay Peninsula and Philippine Islands to Australia)
Subfamily Pseudochromidae
* Oblique-lined dottyback '' Cypho purpurascens'' (De Vis, 1884) (Southwestern Pacific)
* Fine-scaled dottyback '' Lubbockichthys multisquamatus'' (Allen, 1987) syn. ''Pseudoplesiops multisquamatus'' (Eastern Indian Ocean to central Pacific)
* Multicoloured dottyback '' Ogilbyina novaehollandiae'' (Steindachner, 1880) (Southern Great Barrier Reef)
* Queensland dottyback '' Ogilbyina queenslandiae'' ( Saville-Kent, 1893) (Great Barrier Reef)
* Sailfin dottyback '' Ogilbyina velifera'' (Lubbock, 1980) (Great Barrier Reef)
* Double-striped dottyback '' Pseudochromis bitaeniatus'' (Fowler, 1931) (Indonesia, Philippines, Solomon Islands and the northern Great Barrier Reef)
* Blue-barred dottyback '' Pseudochromis cyanotaenia'' Bleeker, 1857 (Eastern Indian Ocean to central Pacific)
* Brown dottyback '' Pseudochromis fuscus'' Mueller and Troschel, 1849 (Central Indian Ocean to western Pacific)
* Firetail dottyback '' Pseudochromis flammicauda'' Lubbock and Goldman, 1976 (Great Barrier Reef)
* Spot-tailed dottyback '' Pseudochromis jamesi'' Schultz, 1943 (South-western Pacific)
* Royal dottyback '' Pseudochromis paccagnellae'' Axelrod, 1973 (Indonesia to Melanesia and Australia)
* Midnight dottyback '' Pseudochromis paranox'' Lubbock and Goldman, 1976 (Southwestern Pacific)
* Spotted dottyback '' Pseudochromis quinquedentatus'' McCulloch, 1926 (Northern Australia)
* Yellowfin dottyback '' Pseudochromis wilsoni'' (Whitley, 1929) (Northern Australia)
* Bug-eyed dottyback '' Pseudoplesiops knighti'' Allen, 1987 (Indonesia, Melanesia and northern Australia)
* Large-scaled dottyback '' Pseudoplesiops rosae'' Schultz, 1943 (Eastern Indian Ocean to central Pacific)
* Bearded dottyback ''
Pseudoplesiops
''Pseudoplesiops'' is a genus of dottyback fishes currently with ten described species. They are distributed in the south Pacific and in the Indian Ocean as far west as the Maldive Islands.
Species
*'' Pseudoplesiops annae'' ( Weber, 1913) (Ann ...
'' sp. (Central Indian Ocean to western Pacific)
* Ring-eyed dottyback '' Pseudoplesiops typus'' Bleeker, 1858 (Eastern Indian Ocean to central Pacific)
Family
Plesiopidae
The longfins, also known as roundheads or spiny basslets, are a family, Plesiopidae, which were formerly placed in the order Perciformes but are now regarded as being ''incertae sedis'' in the subseries Ovalentaria in the clade Percomorpha. They a ...
– Prettyfins, blue devilfishes, hulafishes, longfins
* Yellow devilfish ''
Assessor flavissimus
''Assessor flavissimus'', the yellow devilfish or yellow scissortail, is a fish from the western Central Pacific, recorded from the Great Barrier Reef and Papua New Guinea. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size ...
'' Allen and Kuiter, 1976 (Northern Great Barrier Reef)
* Blue devilfish ''
Assessor macneilli
''Assessor macneilli'', the blue devilfish or blue scissortail, is a fish from the southwest Pacific Ocean. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to in length. It is purple-blue with long fins.
Description
''Assessor ...
'' Whitley, 1935 (Great Barrier Reef and New Caledonia)
* Comet ''
Calloplesiops altivelis
The comet or marine betta (''Calloplesiops altivelis'') is a species of reef-associated tropical marine fish in the longfin family Plesiopidae, most commonly found between 3 and 50 m deep. It is native to the Indo-Pacific Ocean. It can reach a ...
'' (Steindachner, 1903) (East Africa and Red Sea to Tonga and the Line Islands)
* Blue-tip longfin '' Paraplesiops poweri'' Ogilby, 1908 (Central and southern Queensland and adjacent Great Barrier Reef)
* Red-tipped longfin '' Plesiops coeruleolineatus'' Rueppell, 1835 (East Africa and the Red Sea to Australia and the Marshall Islands)
* Coral Sea longfin ''
Plesiops insularis
''Plesiops'' is a genus of ray-finned fishes in the family Plesiopidae. It is a genus of small fishes which vary in length from and and which live in shallow coral flats or around heads of coral. They have elongated pelvic fins and the other ...
'' Mooi and Randall, 1991 (Great Barrier Reef)
* ''
Plesiops genaricus
''Plesiops'' is a genus of ray-finned fishes in the family Plesiopidae. It is a genus of small fishes which vary in length from and and which live in shallow coral flats or around heads of coral. They have elongated pelvic fins and the other ...
'' Mooi and Randall (Great Barrier Reef)
Subfamily Acanthoclininae
* Banded spiny basslet '' Belonepterygion fasciolatum'' (Ogilby, 1889) (West and east coasts of Australia in tropical and subtropical seas, and Lord Howe Island)
Family
Teraponidae
Grunters or tigerperches are ray-finned fishes in the family Terapontidae (also spelled Teraponidae, Theraponidae or Therapontidae). This family is part of the superfamily Percoidea of the order Perciformes.
Characteristics
The Terapontidae is ...
- Grunters
* Crescent grunter ''
Terapon jarbua
''Terapon jarbua'', the jarbua terapon, crescent grunter, crescent banded grunter, crescent perch, spiky trumpeter, thornfish or tiger perch, is a species of ray-finned fish, a grunter of the family Terapontidae. It occurs in the Indo-Pacific. ...
'' (Forsskal, 1775) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa)
Family
Kuhliidae
The flagtails (' or ' in the Hawaiian language) are a family (Kuhliidae) of perciform fish of the Indo-Pacific area. The family consists of several species in one genus, ''Kuhlia''. Most are euryhaline and often found in brackish water, but th ...
- Flagtails
* Fiveband flagtail ''
Kuhlia mugil
''Kuhlia mugil'', the barred flagtail, the fiveband flagtail or the five-bar flagtail, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a flagtail belonging to the family Kuhliidae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific region.
Description
''Kuhlia mugil'' ...
'' (Forster in Bloch and Scneider, 1801) (Indo-Pacific and tropical eastern Pacific)
Family
Priacanthidae
The Priacanthidae, the bigeyes, are a family of 18 species of marine ray-finned fishes. " Catalufa" is an alternate common name for some members of the Priacanthidae. The etymology of the scientific name (, to bite + , thorn) refers to the fam ...
- Bigeyes
* Glasseye ''
Heteropriacanthus cruentatus
''Heteropriacanthus'', the glasseyes or glass bigeyes, are a genus of the bigeye family found in all tropical seas around the world. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of in total length.
The glasseyes ha ...
'' (Lacepede, 1801) (Circumglobal in tropical and subtropical seas)
* Bloch's bigeye ''
Priacanthus blochii
''Priacanthus blochii'', the paeony bulleye, is a species of marine ray finned fish, a bigeye in the family Priacanthidae. Other common names for this species include Bloch's bigeye, blotched bigeye, glass-eye bigeye, shortfin bigeye, silver big- ...
'' Bleeker,1853 (Samoa to Gulf of Aden)
* Crescent tail bigeye ''
Priacanthus hamrur
''Priacanthus hamrur'', the lunar-tailed bigeye, goggle eye, or moontail bullseye, is a species of marine fishes belonging to the family Priacanthidae.
Distribution
This species is uncommon but widespread in the Indo-Pacific, from the Red Sea an ...
'' (Forsskal, 1775) (Indo-Pacific)
Family
Apogonidae
Cardinalfishes are a family, Apogonidae, of ray-finned fishes found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans; they are chiefly marine, but some species are found in brackish water and a few (notably ''Glossamia'') are found in fresh water. A h ...
– Cardinalfishes
* Ring-tailed cardinalfish '' Apogon aureus'' (Lacepede, 1802) (East Africa to western Pacific)
* Ruby cardinalfish '' Apogon crassiceps'' Garman, 1903 (Western Pacific to islands of Oceania except Hawaii)
* Split-banded cardinalfish '' Apogon compressus'' (Smith and Radcliffe, 1911) (East Indies to Solomon Islands and North to Ryukyu Islands)
* Yellow-striped cardinalfish '' Apogon cyanosoma'' Bleeker, 1853 (East Africa and Red Sea to Australia and the Marshall Islands)
* Doederlein's cardinalfish '' Apogon doederleini'' Jordan and Snyder, 1901 (Western Pacific antitropical: Southern Japan to Taiwan in the north, subtropical Australia to New Caledonia and the Kermadec Islands in the south)
* Fragile cardinalfish '' Apogon fragilis'' Smith, 1961 (East Africa to Samoa)
* Frostfin cardunalfish '' Apogon hoeveni'' Bleeker, 1854 (East Indies and northern Australia to Japan)
* Longspine cardinalfish '' Apogon leptacanthus'' Bleeker, 1856 (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa)
* Moluccan cardinalfish '' Apogon moluccensis'' Valenciennes, 1832 (East Indies and northern Australia)
* Blackstripe cardinalfish '' Apogon nigrofasciatus'' Lachner, 1953 (Red Sea to the Taumotus)
* Spotnape cardinalfish '' Apogon notatus'' (Houttuyn, 1782) (Coral Sea to southern Japan)
* Sangi cardinalfish '' Apogon sangiensis'' Bleeker, 1857 (East Indies to Vanuatu and north to Japan)
* Oblique banded cardinalfish '' Apogon semiornatus'' Peters, 1876 (East Africa to northern Australia and north to Japan)
* Three-spot cardinalfish '' Apogon trimaculatus'' Cuvier, 1828 (East Indies to Samoa, north to the Ryukyu Islands)
* Three saddle cardinalfish ''
Apogon
''Apogon'' is a large genus of fish in the family ''Apogonidae'', the cardinalfishes. They are among the most common fish on coral reefs. Over 200 species have been classified in genus ''Apogon'' as members of several subgenera. Some of these sub ...
'' sp. (French Polynesia and Marshall Islands to northern Indian Ocean)
* Timor cardinalfish '' Apogonichthyoides timorensis'' (Bleeker, 1854) syn. ''Apogon timorensis'' ((as ''A. timorensis'') East Africa and the Red Sea to northern Australia and north to Japan)
* Ocellated cardinalfish '' Apogonichthys ocellatus'' (Weber,1913) (East Africa to the Marquesas and Taumotus)
* Narrow-lined cardinalfish '' Archamia fucata'' (Cantor, 1850) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa)
* Lea's cardinalfish '' Archamia leai'' Waite, 1916 (Coral Sea and southern Great Barrier Reef)
* Two-spot cardinalfish '' Archamia biguttata'' Lachner, 1951 (Northern Australia and New Guinea)
* Girdled cardinalfish '' Archamia zosterophora'' (Bleeker, 1856) (Indonesia and Philippines to New Caledonia and north to the Ryukyu Islands)
* Tiger cardinalfish '' Cheilodipterus macrodon'' (Lacepede, 1802) (Indo-Pacific)
* Wolf cardinalfish '' Cheilodipterus artus'' Smith, 1961 (East Africa to the Taumotu Archipelago, In the western Pacific from Ryukyu Islands to the Great Barrier Reef)
* Five-lined cardinalfish '' Cheilodipterus quinquelineatus'' Cuvier, 1828 (East Africa and the Red Sea to southeastern Polynesia)
* Mimic cardinalfish '' Cheilodipterus parazonatus'' Gon, 1993 (Indonesia, Phlippines, New Guinea and Queensland)
* Weed cardinalfish '' Foa brachygramma'' (Jenkins, 1903) (East Africa to Hawaiian Islands)
* Dwarf cardinalfish '' Fowleria vaiulae'' (Jordan and Seale, 1906) (Red Sea to western Pacific)
* Aurita cardinalfish '' Fowleria aurita'' (Valenciennes, 1831) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the western Pacific)
* Eared cardinalfish '' Fowleria marmorata'' (Alleyne and Macleay, 1877) (Red Sea to southeastern Polynesia)
* Peppered cardinalfish '' Fowleria punctulata'' (Rueppell, 1838) ( Red Sea to central and south Pacific)
* Variegated cardinalfish '' Fowleria variegata'' (Valenciennes, 1832) (Red Sea to Samoa and north to Ryukyu Islands)
* Eightspine cardinalfish '' Neamia octospina'' Smith and Radcliffe, 1912 (East Africa and the Red Sea to Australia and Philippine Islands)
* Guam cardinalfish '' Nectamia fusca'' (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) syn. ''Apogon guamensis'' Valenciennes, 1832 ((as ''A. guamensis'') East Africa and Red Sea to Samoa)
* Samoan cardinalfish '' Nectamia savayensis'' (Günther, 1872) syn. ''Apogon savayensis'' ((as ''A. savayensis'')Indo-Pacific from East Africa to French Polynesia)
* Striped cardinalfish '' Ostorhinchus angustatus (Smith & Radcliffe, 1911) syn. ''Apogon angustatus'' ((as ''A. angustatus'')East Africa and the Red Sea to Melanesia and Micronesia)
* Goldbelly cardinalfish '' Ostorhinchus apogonoides'' (Bleeker, 1856) syn. ''Apogon apogonides'' ((as ''A. apogonides'') East Africa to East Indies and Australia)
* Cook’s cardinalfish '' Ostorhinchus cookii (MacLeay, 1881) syn. ''Apogon cookii'' ((as ''A. cookii'')East Africa to Australia, north to Japan)
* Rifle cardinalfish '' Ostorhinchus kiensis'' (Jordan & Snyder, 1901) syn. ''Apogon kiensis'' ((as ''A. kiensis'')East Africa and Red Sea north to Japan)
* Nine-banded cardinalfish '' Ostorhinchus novemfasciatus'' (Cuvier, 1828) syn. ''Apogon novemfasciatus'' ((as ''A. novemfasciatus'') Cocos-Keeling Islands to Samoa and north to the Izu Islands)
* Coral cardinalfish '' Ostorhinchus properuptus'' (Whitley, 1964) syn. ''Apogon properupta'' ((as ''A. properupta'') Queensland and the northern section of the Great Barrier Reef south to Montague Island, New South Wales)
* Reef-flat cardinalfish '' Ostorhinchus taeniophorus'' (Regan, 1908) syn. ''Apogon taeniophorus'' ((as ''A. taeniophorus'') Mauritius to Polynesia)
* Flame cardinalfish '' Ostorhinchus talboti'' (Smith, 1961) syn. ''Apogon talboti'' Smith, 1961 ((as ''A. talboti'')Indo-Pacific)
*Narrowstripe cardinalfish ''
Pristiapogon exostigma
''Pristiapogon exostigma'', also known as Eyeshadow cardinalfish or oneline cardinalfish, is a small (max length is 11 cm) pale ray-finned fish from the family Apogonidae, the cardinalfishes with light-ended black stripe ending in black s ...
Pristiapogon fraenatus
''Pristiapogon'' is a genus of cardinalfishes native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Species
The recognized species in this genus are:Mabuchi, K., Fraser, T.H., Song, H., Azuma, Y. & Nishida, M. (2014)Revision of the systematics of the cardin ...
'' (Valenciennes, 1832) syn. ''Apogon fraenatus'' ((as ''A. fraenatus'')East Africa and Red Sea to the Line Islands and Taumotu Archipelago)
* Iridescent cardinalfish ''
Pristiapogon kallopterus
''Pristiapogon'' is a genus of cardinalfishes native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Species
The recognized species in this genus are:Mabuchi, K., Fraser, T.H., Song, H., Azuma, Y. & Nishida, M. (2014)Revision of the systematics of the cardin ...
'' (Bleeker, 1856) syn.''Apogon kallopterus'' Bleeker, 1856 ((as ''A. kallopterus'') East Africa and Red Sea to Polynesia)
* Gelatinous cardinalfish '' Pseudamia gelatinosa'' Smith, 1954 (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Society Islands and north to Japan)
* Slender cardinalfish '' Rhabdamia gracilis'' (Bleeker, 1856) (East Africa to the Marshall Islands)
* Striped siphonfish '' Siphamia majimai'' Matsubara and Iwai, 1958 (Northern Australia to Japan)
* Threadfin cardinalfish ''
Sphaeramia nematoptera
The pajama cardinalfish, spotted cardinalfish, coral cardinalfish, or polkadot cardinalfish (''Sphaeramia nematoptera'') is a species of fish belonging to the family Apogonidae. It is a popular aquarium fish. It grows to a total length around a ...
'' (Bleeker, 1856) (East Indies and northern Australia to Micronesia and north to Japan)
Family
Malacanthidae
250px, Blue blanquillo, ''Malacanthus latovittatus''
Tilefishes are mostly small perciform marine fish comprising the family Malacanthidae. They are usually found in sandy areas, especially near coral reefs.
Commercial fisheries exist for th ...
- Sand tilefishes
* Grey tilefish ''
Hoplolatilus cuniculus
''Hoplolatilus'' is a genus of tilefishes native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
Species
There are currently 13 recognized species in this genus:
* '' Hoplolatilus chlupatyi'' Klausewitz, McCosker, J. E. Randall & Zetzsche ...
'' Randall and Dooley, 1974 (Mauritius to the Society Islands)
* Blue tilefish '' Hoplolatilus starcki'' Randall and Dooley, 1974 (Indonesia to Australia, Melanesia and Micronesia)
* Flagtail banquillo ''
Malacanthus brevirostris
''Malacanthus brevirostris'', the quakerfish, flagtail blanquillo, false whiting or stripetail tilefish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a tilefish belonging to the family Malacanthidae. It has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution.
Descript ...
'' Guichenot, 1848 (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Hawaiian Islands)
* Blue blanquilillo ''
Malacanthus latovittatus
''Malacanthus'' is a small genus of tilefishes, family Malacanthidae. They are native to the western Atlantic Ocean and the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:
* ''Malacanthus brevirost ...
'' (Lacepede, 1801) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Cook Islands, north to Japan)
Family
Echeneidae
The remora (), sometimes called suckerfish, is any of a family (Echeneidae) of ray-finned fish in the order Carangiformes. Depending on species, they grow to long. Their distinctive first dorsal fins take the form of a modified oval, sucker-li ...
- Remoras, suckerfish
* Slender suckerfish ''
Echeneis naucrates
The live sharksucker or slender sharksucker (''Echeneis naucrates'') is a species of marine fish in the family Echeneidae, the remoras.
Distribution and habitat
The species is considered as circumtropical, as it occurs in all tropical and warm t ...
'' Linnaeus, 1758 (Circumtropical)
Family
Carangidae
The Carangidae are a family of ray-finned fish which includes the jacks, pompanos, jack mackerels, runners, and scads. It is the largest of the six families included within the order Carangiformes. Some authorities classify it as the only family ...
– Trevallies
* Pennantfish ''
Alectis ciliaris
The African pompano (''Alectis ciliaris''), also known as the pennant-fish or threadfin trevally, is a widely distributed species of List of marine aquarium fish species, tropical marine fish in the jack family, Carangidae. The species is found ...
'' (Bloch, 1788) (Worldwide in tropical seas)
* Diamond trevally '' Alectis indicus'' (Rueppell, 1830) (East Africa to Australia and the Ryukyu Islands)
* Fringe-finned trevally '' Pantolabus radiatus'' (MacLeay, 1881) syn. ''Absalom radiatus'' (Macleay, 1881) ((as ''A. radiatus'')Indonesia and northern Australia)
* Small mouth scad ''
Alepes
''Alepes'' is a genus containing five extant species of tropical marine fishes in the jack family, Carangidae. They are commonly known as scads, a term applied to many genera of carangid fishes. Their body form, however, differs from these other ...
'' sp. (Indonesia and northern Australia)
* Yellowtail scad '' Atule mate'' (Cuvier, 1833) (Indo-West Pacific to Hawaiian Islands)
* Onion trevally '' Carangoides caeruleopinnatus'' (Rueppell, 1830) (East Africa to Japan and Australia)
* Club-nosed trevally '' Carangoides chrysophrys'' (Cuvier, 1833) (East Africa to Japan and Australia)
* Whitefin trevally '' Carangoides equula'' (Temminck and Schlegel, 1844) (East Africa, Gulf of Oman, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and Easter Island)
* Blue trevally '' Carangoides ferdau'' (Forsskal, 1775) (Indo-Pacific east to Hawaiian Islands)
* Gold-spotted trevally '' Carangoides fulvoguttatus'' (Forsskal, 1775) (Indo-Pacific)
* Bludger trevally '' Carangoides gymnostethus'' (Cuvier, 1833) (Indo-Pacific)
* Bump-nosed trevally '' Carangoides hedlandensis'' (Whitley, 1934) (East Africa to Samoa and north to Japan)
* Epaulet trevally '' Carangoides humerosus'' (McCulloch, 1915) (Indonesia, New Guinea and northern Australia)
* Malabar trevally ''
Carangoides malabaricus
The Malabar trevally (''Carangoides malabaricus''), also known as the Malabar jack, Malabar kingfish or nakedshield kingfish, is a species of large inshore marine fish of the jack family, Carangidae. It is distributed throughout the Indian and ...
'' (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (Tropical coastal waters of Indo-Pacific)
* Thicklip trevally '' Carangoides orthogrammus'' (Jordan and Gilbert, 1881) (Indo-Pacific and eastern Pacific)
* White-tongued trevally '' Carangoides talamparoides'' Bleeker, 1852 (Gulf of Oman to northern Australia)
* Japanese trevally '' Carangoides uii'' Wakiya, 1924 (East Africa to Australia and Japan)
* Blue-spotted trevally '' Caranx bucculentus'' Alleyne and Macleay, 1877 (Northern Australia and New Guinea)
* Giant trevally '' Caranx ignobilis'' (Forsskal, 1775) (Indo-West Pacific from East Africa to the Hawaiian and Marquesas Islands)
* Black trevally '' Caranx lugubris'' Poey, 1860 (Circumtropical)
* Bluefin trevally ''
Caranx melampygus
The bluefin trevally (''Caranx melampygus''), also known as the bluefin jack, bluefin kingfish, bluefinned crevalle, blue ulua, omilu, and spotted trevally), is a species of large, widely distributed marine fish classified in the jack family, Car ...
'' Cuvier, 1833 (Tropical Indo-Pacific to the Americas)
* Brassy trevally '' Caranx papuensis'' Alleyne and Macleay, 1877 (Indo-Pacific eastward to the Marquesas)
* Banded scad '' Alepes kleinii'' (Bloch, 1793) (East Africa to northern Australia and north to Japan)
* Bigeye trevally '' Caranx sexfasciatus'' Quoy and Gaimard, 1824 (Tropical Indo-Pacific from East Africa to the Americas)
* Tille trevally '' Caranx tille'' Cuvier, 1833 (East Africa, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Okinawa to Australia and Fiji)
* Redtail scad ''
Decapterus kurroides
''Decapterus'' is a genus of marine fishes of jack family, Carangidae, commonly known as mackerel scads, round scads, or horse mackerel. They are found throughout the world.
Species
Currently, 10 or 12 recognized species are found in this genus: ...
'' Bleeker, 1855 (East Africa to Australia and Japan)
* Mackerel scad ''
Decapterus macarellus
The mackerel scad (''Decapterus macarellus''), or speedo, is a species of fish of the family, Carangidae. While mackerel scad can be considered gamefish, they are usually used as bait. They are popular for consumption in Hawai'i, the Philippines ...
Decapterus macrosoma
''Decapterus'' is a genus of marine fishes of jack family, Carangidae, commonly known as mackerel scads, round scads, or horse mackerel. They are found throughout the world.
Species
Currently, 10 or 12 recognized species are found in this genus: ...
Decapterus russelli
The Indian Scad (''Decapterus russelli''), also known as the Northern mackerel scad, round scad, Russell's mackerel scad, slender scad or the three lined grunter, is a species of ray-finned fish of the genus ''Decapterus'' which is part of the Fa ...
'' (Rueppell, 1830) (East Africa to Japan and Australia)
* Rough-ear scad '' Decapterys tabl'' Berry, 1968 (Indo-Pacific east to Hawaiian Islands)
* Rainbow runner '' Elagatis bipinnulata'' (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825) (Circumtropical)
* Golden trevally '' Gnathanodon speciosus'' (Forsskal, 1775) (Tropical Indo-Pacific eastwards to the Americas)
* Finny scad ''
Megalaspis cordyla
The torpedo scad (''Megalaspis cordyla''), also known as the hardtail scad, finny scad, finletted mackerel scad or cordyla scad, is a species of moderately large marine fish classified in the jack and horse mackerel family, Carangidae. The torpe ...
'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (Indo-Pacific to Japan and Australia)
* Pilotfish '' Naucrates ductor'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (Circumtropical)
* Black pomfret '' Parastromateus niger'' (Bloch, 1795) (East Africa to Southern Japan and Australia)
* Silver trevally ''
Pseudocaranx dentex
The white trevally (''Pseudocaranx dentex''), also known as striped jack,) is a jack of the family Carangidae widespread in tropical and warm temperate areas between 40°N and 47°S, in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. It h ...
'' (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (Antitropical, both sides of the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Indo-Pacific eastwards to the Hawaiian Islands)
* Talang queenfish '' Scomberoides commersonnianus'' Lacepede, 1801 (East Africa to Taiwan and Australia)
* Double-spotted queenfish '' Scomberoides lysan'' (Forsskal, 1775) (Indo-Pacific eastwards to Hawaiian Islands)
* Barred queenfish '' Scomberoides tala'' (Cuvier, 1832) (Sri Lanka and east coast of India to Australia and the Solomon Islands)
* Needleskin queenfish '' Scomberoides tol'' (Cuvier, 1832) (Indian Ocean to Japan and Australia, eastwards to Fiji)
* Oxeye scad ''
Selar boops
''Selar boops'', the oxeye scad, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Carangidae, the scads, jacks and trevallies. It is found in the Indo-Pacific. It is an important species for fisheries in some parts of its range.
Description
Adults ...
Selar crumenophthalmus
The bigeye scad (''Selar crumenophthalmus'') is an oceanic fish found in tropical regions around the globe. Other common names include purse-eyed scad, goggle-eyed scad, akule, chicharro, charrito ojón, jacks, matang baka, mushimas and coulirou ...
'' (Bloch, 1793) (Worldwide in tropical and subtropical waters)
* Smooth tailed trevally '' Selaroides leptolepis'' (Cuvier, 1833) (Persian Gulf eastwards to Australia and Japan)
* Amberjack ''
Seriola dumerili
The greater amberjack (''Seriola dumerili''), also known as the allied kingfish, great amberfish, greater yellowtail, jenny lind, Sea donkey, purplish amberjack, reef donkey, rock salmon, sailors choice, yellowtail, and yellow trevally, is a spec ...
Seriola lalandi
The yellowtail amberjack, yellowtail kingfish, hiramasa or great amberjack (''Seriola lalandi'') is a large fish found in the Southern Ocean. Although previously thought to be found in all oceans and seas, recent genetic analysis restricts ''S. ...
'' Valenciennes, 1833 (Perth, Western Australia, to Capricorn Group, Queensland, and northern Tasmania.) (Circumglobal restricted to subtropical and temperate waters)
* Almaco jack ''
Seriola rivoliana
The longfin yellowtail (''Seriola rivoliana''), also known as the almaco or silvercoat jack, deep-water, falcate, European or highfin amberjack, rock salmon, longfin or yellow kingfish, is a game fish of the family Carangidae; they are in the sam ...
'' Valenciennes, 1833 (Circumtropical, entering temperate waters in some areas)
* Black-banded kingfish '' Seriolina nigrofasciata'' (Rueppell, 1829) (East Africa to Japan and Australia)
* Black-spotted dart ''
Trachinotus baillonii
The smallspotted dart (''Trachinotus baillonii'') is an Indo-Pacific species of pompano in the family Carangidae.
Description
''Trachinotus baillonii'' can reach a maximum length of in males and a maximum weight of . The body color varies from ...
'' (Lacepede, 1801) (Indo-West Pacific from East Africa to the Marshall and Line Islands)
* Snub-nosed dart ''
Trachinotus blochii
The snubnose pompano (''Trachinotus blochii''), also called the snubnose dart, golden pompano, and golden pomfret, is an Asia Pacific species of pompano in the family Carangidae. It is a pelagic fish associated with rocky reefs, coral reefs as w ...
'' (Lacepede, 1801) (Indo-Pacific from East Africa to the Marshall Islands)
* Common dart '' Trachinotus botla'' (Shaw, 1803) (East Africa to Australia)
Family
Coryphaenidae
''Coryphaena'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes known as the dolphinfishes, and is currently the only known genus in the family Coryphaenidae. The generic name is from Greek κορυφή (''koryphē'', "crown, top") and -αινα (-''aina'' ...
– Dolphinfishes
* Common dolphinfish ''
Coryphaena hippurus
The mahi-mahi () or common dolphinfish (''Coryphaena hippurus'') is a surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in off-shore temperate, tropical, and subtropical waters worldwide. Also widely called dorado (not to be confused with ''Salminus brasil ...
'' Linnaeus, 1758 (Circumtropical)
Family
Lutjanidae
Lutjanidae, or snappers are a family of perciform fish, mainly marine, but with some members inhabiting estuaries, feeding in fresh water. The family includes about 113 species. Some are important food fish. One of the best known is the red snapp ...
– Snappers
* Small-toothed jobfish '' Aphareus furca'' (Lacepede, 1802) (East Africa to Polynesia)
* Green jobfish ''
Aprion virescens
The green jobfish (''Aprion virescens''), also known as the gray jobfish, gray snapper, or slender snapper, and in Hawaiian as ''uku'', is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It is found in the Indo ...
'' Valenciennes, 1830 (East Africa and the Red sea to Polynesia)
* Hussar '' Lutjanus adetii'' Castelnau, 1873 (Eastern Australia and the Coral Sea)
* Mangrove jack ''
Lutjanus argentimaculatus
The mangrove red snapper (''Lutjanus argentimaculatus''), also known as mangrove jack, grey snapper, creek red bream, Stuart evader, dog bream, purple sea perch, red bream, red perch, red reef bream, river roman, or rock barramundi, is a species ...
'' (Forsskal, 1775) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa. Introduced to eastern Mediterranean)
* Red bass '' Lutjanus bohar'' (Forsskal, 1775) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Marquesas and Line Islands)
* Spanish flag '' Lutjanus carponotatus'' (Richardson, 1842) (Andaman sea to northern Australia)
* Checkered seaperch '' Lutjanus decussatus'' (Cuvier, 1828) (Andaman Sea to Northern Australia)
* Black spot snapper '' Lutjanus fulviflamma'' (Forsskal, 1775) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa)
* Yellow margined seaperch '' Lutjanus fulvus'' (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (East Africa and the Red Sea to eastern Oceania. Introduced in the Hawaiian Islands)
* Paddletail ''
Lutjanus gibbus
The humpback red snapper (''Lutjanus gibbus''), the paddletail, paddletail snapper or hunchback snapper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It has a wide Indo-West Pacific distribution. It is a ...
'' (Forsskal, 1775) (East Africa and the Red Sea to southeastern Oceania)
* Bluestripe seaperch '' Lutjanus kasmira'' (Forsskal, 1775) (East Africa to Polynesia. Introduced in Hawaiian Islands)
* Dark-tailed seaperch ''
Lutjanus lemniscatus
''Lutjanus lemniscatus'', the yellowstreaked snapper, darktail snapper, darktail seaperch or maroon sea-perch is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the Family (biology), family Lutjanidae. It is native to the western Pac ...
Lutjanus lutjanus
The bigeye snapper (''Lutjanus lutjanus''), also known as the bigeye seaperch, red sea lined snapper, golden striped snapper, rosy snapper, yellow snapper, or simply snapper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the fam ...
'' (Bloch, 1790) (East Africa to Australia, Melanesia and Mariana Islands)
* Onespot seaperch '' Lutjanus monostigma'' (Cuvier, 1828) (East Africa and Red Sea to the Marquesa and Line Islands)
* Five-lined seaperch '' Lutjanus quinquelineatus'' (Bloch, 1790) (Persian Gulf to Fiji)
* Maori seaperch '' Lutjanus rivulatus'' (Cuvier, 1828) (East Africa and Red Sea to Society Islans and north to Japan)
* Moses perch ''Lutjanus russelli'' (Bleeker, 1849) (East Africa to Fiji)
* Red emperor ''Lutjanus sebae'' (Cuvier, 1828) (East Africa to western Pacific)
* Black banded seaperch ''Lutjanus semicinctus'' Quoy and Gaimard, 1824 (Indonesia to Fiji)
* Brownstripe seaperch ''Lutjanus vitta'' (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824) (Seychelles to western Pacific)
* Midnight seaperch ''Macolor macularis'' Fowler, 1931 (East Indies and northern Australia to Ryukyu Islands)
* Black and white seaperch ''Macolor niger'' (Forsskal 1775) (East Africa to Samoa)
* Sailfin snapper ''Symphorichthys spilurus'' (Guenther, 1874) (Western Pacific from northern Australia to Ryukyu Islands)
* Chinamanfish ''Symphorus nematophorus'' (Bleeker, 1860) (Western Pacific from northern Australia to Ryukyu Islands)
Family Caesionidae – Fusiliers
* Scissortail fusilier ''Caesio caerulaurea'' Lacepede, 1801 (East Africa to Samoa)
* Red-bellied fusilier ''Caesio cuning'' (Bloch, 1791) (Sri Lanka to New Caledonia, north to the Ryukyu Islands)
* Lunar fusilier ''Caesio lunaris'' Cuvier, 1830 (East Africa to Melanesia)
* Blue and gold fusilier ''Caesio teres'' Seale, 1906 (East Africa to the Line Islands and north to Japan)
* Marr's fusilier ''Pterocaesio marri'' Schultz, 1953 (East Africa to the Marquesas and north to Japan)
* Neon fusilier ''Pterocaesio tile'' (Cuvier, 1830) (East Africa to southeastern Oceania and north to Japan)
* Three lined fusilier ''Pterocaesio trilineata'' Carpenter, 1987 (Western and Central Pacific)
Family Lobotidae - Tripletails
* Tripletail ''Lobotes surinamensis'' (Bloch, 1790) (Tropical and subtropical seas around the world)
Family Gerreidae – Silverbiddies, silverbellies
* Oceanic silver biddy ''Gerres longirostris'' (Lacepède, 1801) syn. ''Gerres acinaces'' Bleeker, 1854 ((as ''G. acinaces'')East Africa and Red Sea to Samoa)
Family Haemulidae – Sweetlips, grunts, grunter breams
* Painted sweetlips ''Diagramma pictum'' (Thunberg,1792) (East Africa and the Red Sea to New Caledonia, and north to Japan)
* Goldstriped sweetlips ''Plectorhinchus chrysotaenia'' (Bleeker,1855) (Indonesia to New Caledonis and north to the Ryukyu Islands)
* Many-spotted sweetlips ''Plectorhinchus chaetodonoides'' (Lacepède, 1800) (Cocos-Keeling Islands to Samoa)
* Striped sweetlips ''Plectorhinchus lessonii'' (Cuvier, 1830) (Malaysia to Melanesia and north to Japan)
* Goldspotted sweetlips, netted sweetlips, netted morwong ''Plectorhinchus flavomaculatus'' (Ehrenberg, 1830) (Tropical Australia south to Geographe Bay, Western Australia, and to Moruya, New South Wales. Also widespread in the Indo-West Pacific region.) (Cuvier, 1830) (East Africa and the Red Sea to western Pacific)
* Brown sweetlips, blubber-lip bream ''Plectorhinchus gibbosus'' (Lacepède, 1802) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa, and north to the Ryukyu Islands)
* Diagonal banded sweetlips ''Plectorhinchus lineatus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (Western Pacific from Australia to the Ryukyu Islands)
* Giant sweetlips ''Plectorhinchus albovittatus'' (Rueppell, 1838) (Red Sea to Fiji)
* Dotted sweetlips ''Plectorhinchus picus'' (Cuvier, 1830) (Seychelles to society Islands and north to Japan)
* Somber sweetlips ''Plectorhinchus unicolor'' (Macleay, 1883) (Papua New Guinea to Queensland and the Great Barrier Reef)
Family Sparidae – Breams
* Yellowfin bream, bream, silver bream ''Acanthopagrus australis'' (Owen, 1853) (Lakes Entrance, Victoria, to Townsville, Queensland.)
* Tarwhine ''Rhabdosargus sarba'' (Forsskål, 1775) (Coral Bay to Albany, Western Australia, and Lakes Entrance, Victoria, to Queensland. Also widespread overseas.)
* Snapper, cockney bream, red bream, squire, old man ''Pagrus auratus'' (Schneider, 1801) (Barrow Island, Western Australia, to Hinchinbrook Island, Queensland, and northern Tasmania. Also New Zealand, Japan and the Indo-Malayan region.)(Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (New Zealand and southern Australia north to the Capricorns)
Family Lethrinidae – Emperors
* Gold-lined sea bream ''Gnathodentex aureolineatus'' (Lacepède, 1802) (East Africa to the Taumotus)
* Collared sea bream ''Gymnocranius audleyi'' Ogilby, 1916 (Southern Queensland including southern part of the Great Barrier Reef)
* Japanese sea bream ''Gymnocranius euanus'' Guenther, 1879 (Queensland to Tonga and north to Japan)
* Robinson's sea bream ''Gymnocranius grandoculis'' (Valenciennes,1830) (East Africa and the Red Sea to southeastern Oceania)
* Spotted sea bream ''Gymnocranius'' sp. (Great Barrier Reef, Coral sea, New Caledonia, New Guinea and southern Japan)
* Yellow tailed emperor ''Lethrinus atkinsoni'' Seale, 1909 (Indonesia to Taumotus, north to Japan)
* Bi-eye bream ''Monotaxis grandoculis'' (Forsskal, 1775) (East Africa and the Red Sea to southeastern Oceania and Hawaiian Islands)
Family Nemipteridae – Coral breams
* Japanese butterfish ''Pentapodus nagasakiensis'' (Tanaka, 1915) (Western Pacific from Japan to northern Australia. Reported from Lizard Island and Lihou Reef)
* Paradise butterfish ''Pentapodus paradiseus'' (Guenther, 1859) (Northeastern Australia to the Arafura sea)
* Blue butterfish ''Pentapodus'' sp. (Northeastern Australia to Fiji)
* Pale monocle bream ''Scolopsis affinis'' Peters, 1877 (Indonesia and Philippines to Australia and Melanesia)
* Bridled monocle bream ''Scolopsis bilineata'' (Bloch, 1793) (Andaman Sea to Fiji and north to Japan)
* Lined monocle bream ''Scolopsis lineata'' Quoy and Gaimard, 1824 syn. ''Scolopsis cancellatus'' (Cocos-Keeling Islands to Polynesia)
* Pearly monocle bream ''Scolopsis margaritifera'' (Cuvier, 1830) (Malay Peninsula to Melanesia and northern Australia)
* Monocle bream ''Scolopsis monogramma'' (Cuvier, 1830) (Andaman Sea to New Caledonia and north to Taiwan)
* Threelined monocle bream ''Scolopsis trilineata'' Kner, 1868 (Western Pacific to Samoa)
Family Mullidae – Goatfishes, red mullet
* Yellowstripe goatfish ''Mulloidichthys flavolineatus'' (Lacepede, 1801) syn. ''M. samoensis'' (Indo-Pacific)
* Yellowfin goatfish ''Mulloidichthys vanicolensis'' (Valenciennes, 1831) (Indo-Pacific)
* Bicolour goatfish ''Parupeneus barberinoides'' (Bleeker, 1852) (Western Pacific east to Micronesia and Samoa)
* Dash-dot goatfish ''Parupeneus barberinus'' (Lacepede, 1801) (Indo-Pacific)
* Doublebar goatfish ''Parupeneus trifasciatus'' (Lacepède, 1801) syn. ''Parupeneus bifasciatus'' (Lacepede, 1801) ((as ''P. bifasciatus'')Indo-Pacific)
* Cardinal goatfish ''Parupeneus ciliatus'' (Lacepede, 1801) syn. ''P. fraterculus, P. pleurotaenia'' (Indo-Pacific)
* Goldsaddle goatfish ''Parupeneus cyclostomus'' (Lacepede, 1801) syn. ''P. chryserydros, P. luteus'' (Indo-Pacific)
* Cinnabar goatfish ''Parupeneus heptacanthus'' (Lacepede 1801) syn. ''P. cinnabarensis, P. Pleurospilos'' (East Africa to the Marshall Islands)
* Indian goatfish ''Parupeneus indicus'' (Shaw, 1803) (East Africa to Samoa)
* Manybar goatfish ''Parupeneus multifasciatus'' (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825) (Central and western Pacific)
* Sidespot goatfish ''Parupeneus pleurostigma'' (Bennett, 1830) (Indo-Pacific)
* Blacksaddle goatfish, blackspot goatfish ''Parupeneus spilurus'' (Bleeker, 1854) syn. ''P. signatus'' (Tropical Australia south to Geographe Bay, Western Australia, and to Mallacoota, Victoria. Also Lord Howe Island, New Zealand and New Guinea.) (Northern New Zealand and New Caledonia to Western Australia)
* Bartail goatfish, freckled goatfish ''Upeneus tragula'' Richardson, 1846 (Tropical Australia south to Perth, Western Australia, and to Merimbula, New South Wales.) (Western Pacific to East Africa)
Family Pempheridae – Bullseyes, sweepers
* Golden sweeper ''Parapriacanthus ransonneti'' Steindachner, 1870 (Western Pacific east to New Caledonia and Marshall Islands)
* Bronze sweeper ''Pempheris analis'' Waite, 1910 (Kermadec Islands, Lord Howe Island, southern Great Barrier Reef and Western Australia)
* Copper sweeper ''Pempheris otaitensis'' Lesson, 1830 (Islands of Oceania and western Pacific to Western Australia and Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean)
* Silver sweeper ''Pempheris schwenkii'' Bleeker, 1855 (Fiji and Vanuatu through Australia and Indonesia to East Africa)
Family Kyphosidae – Drummers, rudderfishes
* Topsail drummer ''Kyphosus cinerascens'' Forsskal, 1775 (East Africa and the Red Sea to Polynesia)
* Long finned drummer ''Kyphosis vaigiensis'' (Quoy and Gaimard 1825) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Polynesia)
* Stripey ''Microcanthus strigatus'' (Cuvier, 1831) (Antiequatorial, Isolated populations in western and eastern Australia, and in the Hawaiian Island and Taiwan to Japan)
Family Ephippidae - Batfishes
* Hump-headed batfish ''Platax batavianus'' Cuvier, 1831 (Malay Peninsula to northern Australia)
* Orbicular batfish ''Platax orbicularis'' (Forsskal, 1775) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Taumotus)
* Pinnate batfish ''Platax pinnatus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (Western Pacific from the Ryukyu Islands to Australia)
* Teira batfish ''Platax teira'' (Forsskal, 1775) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Melanesia)
* Short-finned batfish ''Zabidius novemaculeatus'' (McCulloch, 1916) syn. ''Platax novemaculatus'' ((as ''P. novemaculatus'')Northern Australia and southern New Guinea)
Family Chaetodontidae – Butterflyfishes
* Bennett's butterflyfish ''Chaetodon bennetti'' Cuvier, 1831 (East Africa to the Pitcairn Islands, and north to Japan)
* Speckled butterflyfish ''Chaetodon citrinellus'' Cuvier, 1831 (East Africa to the Hawaiian Islands and Tuamotu archipelago)
* Saddled butterflyfish ''Chaetodon ephippium'' Cuvier, 1831 (Cocos-Keeling Islands to the Hawaiian Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago)
* Dusky butterflyfish ''Chaetodon flavirostris'' Guenther, 1873 (Great Barrier Reef to Pitcairn Islands)
* Gunther's butterflyfish ''Chaetodon guentheri'' Ahl, 1913 (Merimbula, New South Wales, to Capricorn Group, Queensland.) (Antiequatorial. Lord How Island and New South Wales, also Japan. Sighted at Lizard Island)
* Klein's butterflyfish ''Chaetodon kleinii'' Bloch, 1790 (East Africa and the Red Sea to Hawaiian Islands and Samoa)
* Lined butterflyfish ''Chaetodon lineolatus'' Cuvier, 1831 (East Africa and the Red Sea to Polynesia)
* Raccoon butterflyfish ''Chaetodon lunula'' (Lacepede, 1802) (East Africa to Polynesia)
* Blackback butterflyfish ''Chaetodon melannotus'' Bloch and Schneider, 1801 (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa and north to Japan)
* Merten's butterflyfish ''Chaetodon mertensii'' Cuvier, 1831 (Lord Howe Island and the Great Barrier Reef to the Ryukyu Islands and east to the Tuamotu Archipelago)
* Meyer's butterflyfish ''Chaetodon meyeri'' Bloch and Schneider, 1801 (East Africa to the Line Islands)
* Spot-tail butterflyfish ''Chaetodon ocellicaudus'' Cuvier, 1831 (East Indies, Philippines and northern Great Barrier Reef)
* Ornate butterflyfish ''Chaetodon ornatissimus'' Cuvier, 1831 (Sri Lanka to Polynesia)
* Spotnape butterflyfish ''Chaetodon oxycephalus'' Bleeker, 1851 (Sri Lanka to Queensland and north to the Philippines)
* Dot and dash butterflyfish ''Chaetodon pelewensis'' Kner, 1868 (Southern Oceania from Queensland to the Tuamotus)
* Bluespot butterflyfish ''Chaetodon plebeius'' Cuvier, 1831 (Andaman sea to Fiji and north to Japan)
* Spot-banded butterflyfish ''Chaetodon punctatofasciatus'' Cuvier 1831 (Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) to the Line Islands)
* Latticed butterflyfish ''Chaetodon rafflesii'' Bennett, 1830 (Sri Lanka to Taumotus and north to Japan)
* Rainford's Butterflyfish ''Chaetodon rainfordi'' McCulloch, 1923 (Great Barrier Reef and inshore areas of the Queensland coast)
* Reticulated butterflyfish ''Chaetodon reticulatus'' Cuvier, 1831 (Great Barrier Reef to Taiwan and east to Polynesia)
* Dotted butterflyfish ''Chaetodon semeion'' Bleeker, 1855 (Maldive Islands to Tuamotus)
* Ovalspot butterflyfish ''Chaetodon speculum'' Cuvier, 1831 (Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) to Tonga and North to Japan)
* Chevroned butterflyfish ''Chaetodon trifascialis'' Quoy and Gaimard, 1825 (East Africa and the Red Sea to Hawaiian and Society Islands)
* Redfin butterflyfish, oval butterflyfish ''Chaetodon trifasciatus'' Park, 1797 (East Africa to Hawaiian Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago)
* Pacific double-saddle butterflyfish ''Chaetodon ulietensis'' Cuvier 1831 (Cocos-Keeling Islands to Tuamotus and north to Japan)
* Teardrop butterflyfish ''Chaetodon unimaculatus'' Bloch, 1787 (East Africa to Polynesia)
* Müller's coralfish ''Chelmon muelleri'' (Klunzinger, 1879) (Northern Australia coastal reefs)
* Beaked coralfish ''Chelmon rostratus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (Andaman Sea to Australia and the Great Barrier Reef, north to the Ryukyu Islands)
* Highfin coralfish ''Coradion altivelis'' McCulloch, 1916 (Western Pacific from Australia north to Japan)
* Orange-banded coralfish ''Coradion chrysozonus'' (Cuvier, 1831) (Western Pacific from Australia north to the Ogasawara Islands)
* Forcepsfish ''Forcipiger flavissimus'' Jordan and McGregor, 1898 (East Africa to Central America and Mexico)
* Longnose butterflyfish ''Forcipiger longirostris'' (Broussonet, 1782) (East Africa to Polynesia)
* Pyramid butterflyfish ''Hemitaurichthys polylepis'' (Bleeker, 1857) (Cocos-Keeling Islands to Hawaiian Islands and Pitcairn group)
* Longfin bannerfish ''Heniochus acuminatus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (East Africa and the Persian Gulf to the Society Islands)
* Pennant bannerfish ''Heniochus chrysostomus'' Cuvier, 1831 syn. ''H. permutatus'' (Cocos-Keeling Islands to Pitcairn Group)
* Schooling bannerfish ''Heniochus diphreutes'' Jordan, 1903 (East Africa to the Hawaiian Islands)
* Masked bannerfish ''Heniochus monoceros'' Cuvier, 1831 (East Africa to the Tuamotus)
* Singular bannerfish ''Heniochus singularius'' Smith and Radcliffe, 1911 (Andaman Sea to Samoa and north to Japan)
* Humphead bannerfish ''Heniochus varius'' (Cuvier, 1829) (Malay Peninsula to Samoa)
* Ocellated coralfish ''Parachaetodon ocellatus'' (Cuvier, 1831) (Australia north to Ogasawara Islands)
Family Pomacanthidae - Angelfishes
* Three-spot angelfish ''Apolemichthys trimaculatus'' (Valenciennes, 1831) (East Africa to Samoa and north to Japan)
* Golden angelfish ''Centropyge aurantia'' Randall and Wass, 1974 (Northern Great Barrier Reef to Samoa)
* Bicolor angelfish ''Centropyge bicolor'' (Bloch, 1787) (Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) to Samoa and north to Japan)
* Two-spined angelfish ''Centropyge bispinosus'' (Guenther, 1860) (East Africa to Tuamotus and north to Izu Islands)
* White-tail angelfish ''Centropyge flavicauda'' Fraser-Brunner, 1933 (Queensland and East Indies north to Japan and east to the Tuamotu Archipelago)
* Lemonpeel angelfish ''Centropyge flavissima'' (Cuvier, 1831) (Cocos-Leeling Islands to southeastern Oceania and north to the Ryukyu Islands)
* Herald's angelfish ''Centropyge heraldi'' Woods and Schultz, 1953 (Queensland to the Tuamotus and north to Taiwan)
* Flame angelfish ''Centropyge loricula'' (Guenther, 1874) syn. ''C. flammeus'' (Oceanic coral reefs from Queensland to Samoa and the Hawaiian Islands)
* Multi-barred angelfish ''Centropyge multifasciata'' (Smith and Radcliffe, 1911) (Cocos-Keeling Islands to Society Islands)
* Midnight angelfish ''Centropyge nox'' (Bleeker, 1853) (Queensland and Melanesia north to the Ryukyu Islands)
* Keyhole angelfish ''Centropyge tibicen'' (Cuvier, 1831) (Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) to Melanesia and north to Japan)
* Pearl-scaled angelfish ''Centropyge vrolikii'' (Bleeker, 1853) (Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) to Melanesia and Micronesia)
* Conspicuous angelfish ''Chaetodontoplus conspicillatus'' (Waite, 1900) (Southern part of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea)
* Scribbled angelfish ''Chaetodontoplus duboulayi'' (Guenther, 1867) (Northern Australia and southern New Guinea. Also reported from Japan)
* Queensland yellowtail angelfish ''Chaetodontoplus meredithi'' Kuiter, 1990 (Queensland coastal and inner reefs)
* Lamarck's angelfish ''Genicanthus lamarck'' (Lacepede, 1802) (East Africa and Indonesia to Queensland and Solomon Islands, and north to Japan. Recorded from Escape Reef on the northern Great Barrier Reef)
* Black-spot angelfish ''Genicanthus melanospilos'' (Bleeker, 1857) (Queensland to Fiji and north to the Ryukyu Islands)
* Watanabe's angelfish ''Genicanthus watanabei'' (Yasuda and Tominaga, 1970) (Queensland to Tuamotus and north to Taiwan)
* Emperor angelfish ''Pomacanthus imperator'' (Bloch, 1787) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Tuamotus and north to Japan)
* Blue-girdled angelfish ''Pomacanthus navarchus'' (Cuvier, 1831) (Indonesia and Philippines to northern Queensland)
* Semicircle angelfish ''Pomacanthus semicirculatus'' (Cuvier, 1831) (East Africa to Samoa)
* Six-banded angelfish ''Pomacanthus sexstriatus'' (Cuvier, 1831) (Malaysia to Solomon Islands and north to Ryukyu Islands)
* Yellowmask angelfish ''Pomacanthus xanthometopon'' (Bleeker, 1853) (Maldive Islands to Vanuatu and north to Yaeyama Islands)
* Regal angelfish ''Pygoplites diacanthus'' (Boddaert, 1772) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Tuamotus and north to the Ryukyu Islands)
Family Pomacentridae – Damselfishes
* Bengal sergeant ''Abudefduf bengalensis'' (Bloch, 1787) (Northeastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific)
* Banded sergeant ''Abudefduf septemfasciatus'' (Cuvier, 1830) (East Africa to Tuamotu Archipelago and Line Islands)
* Scissor-tail sergeant ''Abudefduf sexfasciatus'' (Lacepede, 1802) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Tuamotus)
* Blackspot sergeant ''Abudefduf sordidus'' (Forsskal, 1775) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Polynesia)
* Indo-Pacific sergeant ''Abudefduf vaigiensis'' (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Marquesas)
* Whitley's sergeant ''Abudefduf whitleyi'' Allen and Robertson, 1974 (Great Barrier Reef, Coral Sea and New Caledonia)
* Spiny chromis ''Acanthochromis polyacanthus'' (Bleeker, 1855) (Indonesia and the Philippines to northeastern Australia and Melanesia)
* Golden damsel ''Amblyglyphidodon aureus'' (Cuvier, 1830) (Eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific)
* Staghorn damsel ''Amblyglyphidodon curacao'' (Bloch, 1787) (Eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific)
* White-belly damsel ''Amblyglyphidodon leucogaster'' (Bleeker, 1847) (Red Sea to Samoa)
* Black banded demoiselle ''Amblypomacentrus breviceps'' (Schlegel and Mueller, 1839)
* Barrier reef anemonefish ''Amphiprion akindynos'' (Allen, 1972) (Southwestern Pacific, including Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea, northern New South Wales, New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands)
* Orange-fin anemonefish ''Amphiprion chrysopterus'' Cuvier, 1830 (Queensland and New Guinea to Tuamotus and Marshall Islands)
* Clark's anemone fish ''Amphiprion clarkii'' (Bennett, 1830) (Persian Gulf to Vanuatu and Marshall Islands)
* Red and black anemonefish ''Amphiprion melanopus'' Bleeker, 1852 (Indonesia to the Society and Marshall Islands)
* Clown anemonefish ''Amphiprion percula'' (Lacepede, 1802) (Queensland and Melanesia)
* Pink anemonefish ''Amphiprion perideraion'' Bleeker, 1855 (Western Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia ranging north to Japan)
* Big-lip damsel ''Cheiloprion labiatus'' (Day, 1877) (Andaman Sea to northern Australia and Melanesia)
* Midget chromis ''Chromis acares'' Randall and Swerdloff, 1973 (Coral Sea to Society islands and Johnston Island)
* Agile chromis ''Chromis agilis'' Smith, 1960 (East Africa to the Hawaiian Islands and Pitcairn group)
* Yellow speckled chromis ''Chromis alpha'' Randall, 1988 (Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) to Society Islands)
* Ambon chromis ''Chromis amboinensis'' (Bleeker, 1873) (Cocos-Keeling Islands to Samoa and Marshall Islands)
* Yellow chromis ''Chromis analis'' (Cuvier, 1830) (Indonesia to Fiji and Mariana Islands)
* Black-axil chromis ''Chromis atripectoralis'' Welander and Schultz, 1951 (Seychelles to Tuamotus)
* Dark-fin chromis ''Chromis atripes'' Fowler and Bean, 1928 (Cocos-Keeling Islands to Kiribati)
* Stout body chromis ''Chromis chrysura'' (Bliss, 1883) (Three isolated antitropical populations at Southwestern Pacific, Japan to Taiwan and Mauritius to Reunion)
* Deep reef chromis ''Chromis delta'' Randall, 1988 (Cocos Keeling Islands to Fiji)
* Twin-spot chromis ''Chromis elerae'' Fowler and Bean, 1928 (Maldive Islands to Fiji and Marshall Islands)
* Yellow-spotted chromis ''Chromis flavomaculata'' Kamohara, 1960 (Antiequatorial distribution with two isolated populations: Lord Howe Island, Coral Sea New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands, and Japan to Taiwan)
* Half and half chromis ''Chromis iomelas'' Jordan and Seale, 1906 (Great Barrier Reef and northern New Guinea to Samoa and the Society Islands)
* Scaly chromis ''Chromis lepidolepis'' Bleeker, 1877 (Rast Africa and the Red Sea to Fuji and the Line Islands)
* Bicolour chromis ''Chromis margaritifer'' Fowler, 1946 (Cocos-Keeling Islands to the Tuamotus)
* Barrier Reef chromis ''Chromis nitida'' (Whitley, 1928) (Southern and central Great Barrier Reef, Rare or absent in other parts of the Coral Sea)
* Black-bar chromis ''Chromis retrofasciata'' Weber, 1913 (Indonesia and the Philippines to Fiji)
* Ternate chromis ''Chromis ternatensis'' (Bleeker, 1856) (East Africa to Fiji and Marshall Islands)
* Vanderbilt's chromis ''Chromis vanderbilti'' (Fowler, 1941) (Scattered localities in the western and central Pacific)
* Blue-green chromis ''Chromis viridis'' (Cuvier, 1830) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Tuamotu Archipelago and Line Islands)
* Weber's chromis ''Chromis weberi'' Fowler and Bean, 1928 (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Line Islands and Pitcairn group)
* Yellow-axil chromis ''Chromis xanthochira'' (Bleeker, 1851) (Indonesia and Philippines to northeastern Australia and Melanesia)
* Pale-tail chromis ''Chromis xanthura'' (Bleeker, 1854) (Cocos-Keeling Islands to southeastern Oceania)
* Two-spot demoiselle ''Chrysiptera biocellata'' (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824) (East Africa to Samoa and Marshall Islands)
* Blueline demoiselle ''Chrysiptera caeruleolineata'' (Allen, 1973) (Coral Sea to Samoa and Marshall Islands)
* Blue devil ''Chrysiptera cyanea'' (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824) (Indonesia to Vanuatu and Palau and north to the Ryukyu Islands. Fairly common on the Great Barrier Reef but absent from other parts of the Coral Sea)
* Yellowfin damsel ''Chrysiptera flavipinnis'' (Allen and Robertson, 1974) (Southwestern Pacific including New Guinea, eastern Australia and the Coral Sea)
* Grey damsel ''Chrysiptera glauca'' (Cuvier, 1830) (East Africa to the Pitcairn group and Line Islands)
* Surge demoiselle ''Chrysiptera brownriggii'' (Bennett, 1828) (East Africa to the Marquesas and Line Islands)
* King demoiselle ''Chrysiptera rex'' (Snyder, 1909) (Indonesia and the Philippines to northeastern Australia and Melanesia)
* Rolland's demoiselle ''Chrysiptera rollandi'' (Whitley, 1961) (Malay Peninsula to northeastern Australia and Melanesia)
* Starck's demoiselle ''Chrysiptera starcki'' (Allen, 1973) (Antiequatorial distribution in the western Pacific: New Caledonia to Queensland, and Taiwan to the Ryukyu Islands)
* Talbot's demoiselle ''Chrysiptera talboti'' (Allen, 1975) (Malay Peninsula to northeastern Australia and Melanesia)
* South seas demoiselle ''Chrysiptera taupou'' (Jordan and Seale, 1906) (Southwestern Pacific, including Australia, to Fiji and Samoa)
* Threeband demoiselle ''Chrysiptera tricincta'' (Allen and Randall, 1974) (Antiequatorial distribution in western Pacific: Coral Sea to Samoa, and Ryukyu Islands)
* Onespot demoiselle ''Chrysiptera unimaculata'' (Cuvier, 1830) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Fiji)
* Humbug dascyllus ''Dascyllus aruanus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Line Islands and southeastern Polynesia)
* Black tailed dascyllus ''Dascyllus melanurus'' Bleeker, 1854 (Malay Peninsula to northeastern Australia and Melanesia)
* Reticulated dascyllus ''Dascyllus reticulatus'' (Richardson, 1846) (Cocos-Keeling Islands to Samoa)
* Three-spot dascyllus ''Dascyllus trimaculatus'' (Rueppell, 1828) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Line Islands and Pitcairn group)
* Black vent damsel ''Dischistodus melanotus'' (Bleeker, 1853) syn. ''D. notopthalmus'' (Indonesia and the Philippines to northern Australia and the Solomon Islands)
* White damsel ''Dischistodus perspicillatus'' (Cuvier 1830) (Eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific)
* Honey-head damsel ''Dischistodus prosopotaenia'' (Bleeker, 1852) (Andaman Sea to northern Australia and Melanesia)
* Monarch damsel ''Dischistodus pseudochrysopoecilus'' (Allen and Robertson, 1974) (Philippines to northern Australia and Melanesia)
* Lagoon damsel ''Hemiglyphidodon plagiometopon'' (Bleeker, 1852) (Andaman Sea to Queensland and the Solomon Islands, and north to China. Northern Great barrier Reef, apparently absent from the rest of the Coral Sea)
* Fusilier damsel ''Lepidozygus tapeinosoma'' (Bleeker, 1856) (East Africa to the Tuamotus, Marquesas and Line Islands)
* Yellowtail damsel ''Neopomacentrus azysron'' (Bleeker, 1877) (East Africa to New Caledonia)
* Chinese demoiselle ''Neopomacentrus bankieri'' (Richardson, 1846) (South China Sea and Java Sea to Northeastern Australia)
* Regal demoiselle ''Neopomacentrus cyanomos'' (Bleeker, 1856) (East Africa to northern Australia and Melanesia)
* Black demoiselle ''Neoglyphidodon melas'' (Cuvier, 1830) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Vanuatu and north to the Ryukyu Islands)
* Yellowfin damsel ''Neoglyphidodon nigroris'' (Cuvier, 1830) (Andaman Sea to Vanuatu, and north to the Ryukyu Islands)
* Multispine damselfish ''Neoglyphidodon polyacanthus'' (Ogilby, 1889) (Southernmost Great Barrier Reef, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and New Caledonia)
* Bigscale scalyfin ''Parma oligolepis'' Whitley, 1929 (Sydney, New South Wales, to Cairns, Queensland.) (Northern New South Wales to Cape Tribulation on the Cape Yorke Peninsula)
* Banded scalyfin ''Parma polylepis'' Günther, 1862 (Bass Point, New South Wales, to Capricorn Group, Queensland. Also Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and New Caledonia.) (Southernmost Great Barrier Reef, New South Wales, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and New Caledonia)
* Dick's damsel ''Plectroglyphidodon dickii'' (Lienard, 1839) (East Africa to the Tuamotus and Line Islands)
* Brighteye damsel ''Plectroglyphidodon imparipennis'' (Vaillant and Sauvage, 1875) (East Africa to the Pitcairn group and Hawaiian Islands)
* Johnston damsel ''Plectroglyphidodon johnstonianus'' Fowler, and Ball, 1924 (East Africa to Pitcairn group and Hawaiian Islands)
* Jewel damsel ''Plectroglyphidodon lacrymatus'' (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Society Islands and Marshall Islands)
* Whiteband damsel ''Plectroglyphidodon leucozonus'' (Bleeker, 1859) (East Africa to Pitcairn group and Marshall Islands)
* Phoenix damsel ''Plectroglyphidodon phoenixensis'' (Schultz, 1943) (East Africa to the Tuamotus and Marshall Islands)
* Ambon damsel ''Pomacentrus amboinensis'' Bleeker, 1868 (Andaman Sea to northeastern Australia and Melanesia)
* Australian damsel ''Pomacentrus australis'' Allen and Robertson, 1973 (Great Barrier Reef south to Sydney)
* Speckled damsel ''Pomacentrus bankanensis'' Bleeker, 1853 (Christmas Island, (Indian Ocean) to Fiji and north to Japan)
* Charcoal damsel ''Pomacentrus brachialis'' Cuvier, 1830 (Western Pacific to Fiji and Samoa)
* Whitetail damsel ''Pomacentrus chrysurus'' Cuvier 1830 syn. ''P.rhodonotus, P. flavicauda'' (Maldive Islands to the Coral Sea. Melanesia and Micronesia)
* Neon damsel ''Pomacentrus coelestis'' Jordan and Starks, 1901 (Cocos-Leeling Islands to Tuamotus)
* Bluespot damsel ''Pomacentrus grammorhynchus'' Fowler, 1918 (Indonesia and Philippines to northeastern Australia and Melanesia)
* Imitator damsel ''Pomacentrus imitator'' (Whitley, 1964) (Rare on Great Barrier Reef, but common in other parts of the Coral sea. Also New Caledonia, Rotuma and Fiji)
* Scaly damsel ''Pomacentrus lepidogenys'' Fowler and Ball, 1928 (Malay Peninsula to Fiji)
* Lemon damsel ''Pomacentrus moluccensis'' Bleeker, 1853 syn. ''P. popei'' (Andaman Sea to Fiji and north to Ryukyu Islands)
* Sandy damsel ''Pomacentrus nagasakiensis'' Tanaka, 1917 syn. ''P. arenarius'' (Indonesia to Coral Sea and Vanuatu, north to Japan)
* Blackmargined damsel ''Pomacentrus nigromarginatus'' Allen, 1973 (Indonesia to Coral Sea and Solomon Islands, north to Ryukyu Islands)
* Blue damsel, ''Pomacentrus pavo'' (Bloch, 1787) (East Africa to the Tuamotus and Marshall Islands)
* Philippine damsel ''Pomacentrus philippinus'' Evermann and Seale, 1907 (Maldive Islands to Fiji)
* Reid's damsel ''Pomacentrus reidi'' Fowler and Bean, 1928 (Indonesia and Philippines to northeastern Australia and Melanesia)
* Threespot damsel ''Pomacentrus tripunctatus'' Cuvier, 1830 (Sri Lanka to northeastern Australia and Melanesia)
* Princess damsel ''Pomacentrus vaiuli'' Jordan and Seale, 1906 (Molucca Islands to Samoa and north to Japan)
* Ward's damsel ''Pomacentrus wardi'' Whitley, 1927 (Great Barrier Reef and eastern Australian coast south to Sydney)
* Richardson's reef-damsel ''Pomachromis richardsoni'' (Snyder, 1909) (Mauritius to Fiji)
* Spine cheek anemonefish ''Premnas biaculeatus'' (Bloch, 1790) (Malay peninsula to northeastern Australia and Melanesia)
* Gulf damsel ''Pristotis obtusirostris'' (Guenther, 1862) syn. ''P. jerdoni'' (Persian Gulf and Red Sea to Australia, north to Ryukyu Islands)
* Whitebar gregory ''Stegastes albifasciatus'' (Schlegel and Mueller, 1839) (East Africa to the Tuamotus and Line Islands)
* Australian gregory ''Stegastes apicalis'' (De Vis, 1885) (Great Barrier Reef and eastern coast of Australia to Sydney)
* Pacific gregory ''Stegastes fasciolatus'' (Ogilby, 1889) syn. ''S. jenkinsi'' (East Africa to Hawaiian Islands and Easter Island)
* Coral Sea Gregory ''Stegastes gascoynei'' (Whitley, 1964) (Coral Sea and northern Tasman Sea)
* Bluntsnout gregory ''Stegastes lividus'' (Forster in Bloch and Schneider, 1801)
* Dusky gregory ''Stegastes nigricans'' (Lecepede, 1802) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Tuamotus, Marquesas and Line Islands)
Family Cirrhitidae – Hawkfishes
* Twinspot hawkfish ''Amblycirrhitus bimacula'' Jenkins, 1903 (Indo-Pacific)
* Threadfin hawkfish, blotched hawkfish ''Cirrhitichthys aprinus'' (Cuvier, 1829) (Tropical Australia south to Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia, and to Merimbula, New South Wales. Also widespread in the Indo-West Pacific region.) (Western Pacific)
* Dwarf hawkfish ''Cirrhitichthys falco'' Randall, 1963 (Maldives through western Pacific to Mariana Islands, Caroline Islands and Samoa)
* Pixy hawkfish ''Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus'' (Bleeker, 1855) (Indo-Pacific and tropical eastern Pacific)
* Stocky hawkfish ''Cirrhitus pinnulatus'' (Schneider, 1801) (Indo-Pacific)
* Swallowtail hawkfish ''Cyprinocirrhites polyactis'' (Bleeker, 1875) (Indo-Pacific)
* Flame hawkfish ''Neocirrhites armatus'' Castelnau, 1873 (Islands of Oceania and western Pacific)
* Longnose hawkfish ''Oxycirrhites typus'' Bleeker, 1857 (Indo-Pacific and tropical Eastern Pacific)
* Arc-eye hawkfish ''Paracirrhites arcatus'' (Cuvier, 1829) (Indo-Pacific)
* Blackside hawkfish ''Paracirrhites forsteri'' (Schneider, 1801) (Indo-Pacific)
* Halfspotted hawkfish ''Paracirrhites hemistictus'' (Guenther, 1874) syn. ''P. polystictus'' (Islands of Oceania, Great Barrier Reef and Christmas and Cocos-Keeling Islands)
Family Sphyraenidae – Pikes, barracudas
* Great barracuda ''Sphyraena barracuda'' (Walbaum, 1792) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Hawaiian Islands and the Tuamotu archipelago)
* Yellowtail barracuda ''Sphyraena flavicauda'' Rueppell, 1838 (Indo-Pacific)
* Bigeye barracuda ''Sphyraena forsteri'' Cuvier, 1829 (East Africa to the Society Islands)
* Heller's barracuda ''Sphyraena helleri'' Jenkins, 1901 (Western Pacific including the Coral Sea to Hawaiian Islands)
* Pickhandle barracuda ''Sphyraena jello'' Cuvier, 1829 (East Africa and the Red Sea to western Pacific)
* Chevron barracuda ''Sphyraena qenie'' Klunzinger, 1870 (East Africa and the Red Sea to western Pacific)
Family Polynemidae - Threadfins
* Six-fingered threadfin ''Polydactylus sexfilis'' (Valenciennes, 1831) (India to Hawaiian Islands and Tuamotu archipelago)
Family Labridae - Wrasses
* Bluespotted wrasse ''Anampses caeruleopunctatus'' Rueppell, 1829 syn. ''A. diadematus'' (Indo-Pacific)
* Feminine wrasse ''Anampses femininus'' Randall, 1972 (Southern subtropical Pacific from Easter Island to New Caledonia and the Great Barrier Reef)
* Geographic wrasse ''Anampses geographicus'' Valenciennes, 1840 syn. ''A. pterophthalmus'' (Western Australia and western Pacific east to the Caroline Islands and Fiji)
* Spotted wrasse ''Anampses meleagrides'' Valenciennes, 1840 syn. ''A. amboinensis''(East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa and the Caroline Islands)
* New Guinea wrasse ''Anampses neoguinaicus'' Bleeker, 1878 (Western Pacific, east to Fiji)
* Yellowbreasted wrasse ''Anampses twistii'' Bleeker, 1856 (Indo-Pacific)
* Lyretail hogfish ''Bodianus anthioides'' (Bennett, 1830) (Indo-Pacific)
* Axilspot hogfish ''Bodianus axillaris'' (Bennett, 1831) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa and the Marshall Islands)
* Twospot hogfish ''Bodianus bimaculatus'' Allen, 1973 (Mauritius and the Maldives to the western Pacific)
* Diana's pigfish, Diana's hogfish ''Bodianus diana'' (Lacépède, 1801) syn. ''Lepidapolois aldabraensis'' (Tropical Australia south to Montague Island, New South Wales. Also widespread in the Indo-Pacific region.) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa and the Marshall Islands)
* Blackfin hogfish ''Bodianus loxozonus'' (Snyder, 1908) (Western Pacific to French Polynesia)
* Splitlevel hogfish ''Bodianus mesothorax'' (Bloch and Scneider, 1801) (Western Pacific to Fiji)
* Goldspot hogfish ''Bodianus perditio'' (Quoy and Gaimard, 1834) (Antiequatorial: Southern Africa to islands of southern Oceania, and Taiwan to southern Japan)
* Floral Maori wrasse ''Cheilinus chlorourus'' (Bloch, 1791) (Indo-Pacific)
* Redbreasted Maori wrasse ''Cheilinus fasciatus'' (Bloch, 1791) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa and Micronesia)
* Snooty Maori wrasse ''Cheilinus oxycephalus'' Bleeker, 1853 (Indo-Pacific)
* Tripletail Maori wrasse ''Cheilinus trilobatus'' Lacepede, 1801 (Indo-Pacific)
* Humphead Maori wrasse ''Cheilinus undulatus'' Rueppell, 1835 (Indo-Pacific)
* Cigar wrasse ''Cheilio inermis'' (Forsskal, 1775) (Indo-Pacific)
* Anchor tuskfish ''Choerodon anchorago'' (Bloch, 1791) (Sri Lanka to Western Pacific)
* Grass Ttuskfish ''Choerodon cephalotes'' (Castelnau, 1975) (Indonesia to Queensland)
* Blue tuskfish ''Choerodon cyanodus'' (Richardson, 1843) syn. ''Choerops albigena'' (Western Australia to Queensland)
* Harlequin tuskfish ''Choerodon fasciatus'' (Guenther, 1867) (Antiequatorial; Taiwan to Ryukyu Islands and Queensland to New Caledonia)
* Graphic tuskfish ''Choerodon graphicus'' (De Vis, 1885) syn. ''C. transversalis'' (Queensland to New Caledonia)
* Blackspot tuskfish ''Choerodon schoenleinii'' (Valenciennes, 1839) (Western Australia to western Pacific)
* Venus tuskfish ''Choerodon venustus'' (De Vis, 1884) (Northern New South Wales to Queensland)
* Exquisite wrasse ''Cirrhilabrus exquisitus'' Smith, 1957 (Indo-Pacific)
* Magenta streaked wrasse ''Cirrhilabrus laboutei'' Randall and Lubbock, 1982 (Great Barrier Reef to New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands)
* Purplelined wrasse ''Cirrhilabrus lineatus'' Randall and Lubbock, 1982 (Great Barrier Reef to New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands)
* Dotted wrasse ''Cirrhilabrus punctatus'' Randall and Kuiter, 1989 (New South Wales to southern New Guinea, and east to Fiji)
* Scott's wrasse ''Cirrhilabrus scottorum'' Randall and Pyle, 1989 (South Pacific from the Great Barrier Reef to the Pitcairn group)
* Goldlined coris ''Coris aurilineata'' Randall and Kuiter, 1982 (New South Wales to the southern Great Barrier Reef)
* Clown coris ''Coris aygula'' Lacepede, 1801 syn. ''Coris angulata'' (Indo-Pacific)
* Pale-barred coris ''Coris dorsomacula'' Fowler, 1908 syn. ''Coris dorsomaculata'' ((as ''C. dorsomaculata'') Western Pacific)
* Yellowtail coris ''Coris gaimard'' (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824) (Central and western Pacific)
* Blackspot coris ''Coris pictoides'' Randall and Kuiter, 1982 (Known from New South Wales, Great Barrier Reef, Western Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines)
* Batu coris ''Coris batuensis'' (Bleeker, 1857) (Western Indian Ocean to the Marshall Islands and Tonga)
* Knifefish ''Cymolutes praetextatus'' (Quoy and Gaimard, 1834) (Indo-Pacific except Hawaii)
* Collared knifefish ''Cymolutes torquatus'' Valenciennes, 1840 (Indo-Pacific)
* Yellowtail tubelip ''Diproctacanthus xanthurus'' (Bleeker, 1856) (Philippines, Palau, Indonesia, New Guinea and the Great Barrier Reef)
* Slingjaw wrasse ''Epibulus insidiator'' (Pallas, 1770) (Indo-Pacific)
* Bird wrasse ''Gomphosus varius'' Lacepede, 1801 syn. ''G. tricolor'' (Oceania and the western Pacific)
* Biocellate wrasse ''Halichoeres biocellatus'' Schultz, 1960 (Western Pacific to Samoa and Marshall Islands)
* Pastel-green wrasse ''Halichoeres chloropterus'' (Bloch, 1791) syn. ''H. gymnocephalus'' (Philippines to Great Barrier Reef)
* Golden wrasse ''Halichoeres chrysus'' Randall, 1981 (Christmas Island (Indian Ocean), Western Pacific and Micronesia)
* Goldstripe wrasse ''Halichoeres hartzfeldii'' (Bleeker, 1852) (Red sea, Persian Gulf and western Indian Ocean to the Western Pacific)
* Checkerboard wrasse ''Halichoeres hortulanus'' (Lacepede, 1801) syn. ''H. centiquadrus'' (Indo-Pacific)
* Pink-belly wrasse ''Halichoeres margaritaceus'' (Valenciennes, 1839) (Western and central Pacific)
* Dusky wrasse ''Halichoeres marginatus'' Rueppell, 1835 (Indo-Pacific)
* Tailspot wrasse ''Halichoeres melanurus'' (Bleeker, 1851) (Western Pacific east to Micronesia and Samoa)
* Ocellated wrasse ''Halichoeres melasmapomus'' Randall, 1980 (Islands of Oceania except Hawaii and Easter Island, and from the Philippines to the Red Sea. Also recorded from Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) and the Cocos-Keeling Islands)
* Circle-cheek wrasse ''Halichoeres miniatus'' (Valenciennes, 1839) (Western Pacific)
* Nebulous wrasse ''Halichoeres nebulosus'' (Valenciennes, 1839) (Red Sea and tropical and subtropical Indian Ocean to the western Pacific)
* Ornate wrasse ''Halichoeres ornatissimus'' (Garrett, 1863) (Western Pacific and islands of Oceania)
* Twotone wrasse ''Halichoeres prosopeion'' (Bleeker, 1853) (Western Pacific to Samoa, and Palau)
* Zigzag wrasse ''Halichoeres scapularis'' (Bennett, 1831) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the western Pacific)
* Threespot wrasse ''Halichoeres trimaculatus'' (Quoy and Gaimard, 1834) (Western Pacific and Islands of Oceania, and Christmas Island (Indian Ocean))
* Barred thicklip ''Hemigymnus fasciatus'' (Bloch, 1792) (Indo-Pacific)
* Blackeye thicklip ''Hemigymnus melapterus'' (Bloch, 1791) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Micronesia and Samoa)
* Ringwrasse ''Hologymnosus annulatus'' (Lacepede, 1801) syn. ''H. semidiscus'' (Indo-Pacific)
* Pastel ringwrasse ''Hologymnosus doliatus'' (Lacepede, 1801) (East Africa to Samoa and the Line Islands)
* Sidespot ringwrasse ''Hologymnosus longipes'' (Guenther, 1862) (Southern Great Barrier Reef, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands and Vanuatu)
* Whitepatch razorfish ''Iniistius aneitensis'' (Günther, 1862) syn. ''Xyrichthys aneitensis'' ((as ''X. aneitensis'') Western and central Pacific)
* Peacock razorfish ''Iniistius pavo'' (Valenciennes, 1840) syn. ''Xyrichtys pavo'' ((as ''X. pavo'') Indo-Pacific)
* Tubelip wrasse ''Labrichthys unilineatus'' (Guichenot, 1847) syn. ''L. cyanotaenia'' (East Africa to Micronesia and Samoa)
* Bicolor cleaner wrasse ''Labroides bicolor'' Fowler and Bean, 1928 (Indo-Pacific)
* Striped cleaner wrasse ''Labroides dimidiatus'' (Valenciennes, 1839) (Indo-Pacific)
* Breastspot cleaner wrasse ''Labroides pectoralis'' Randall and Springer, 1975 (Indonesia and the Great Barrier Reef to Micronesia and New Caledonia. Also Christmas Island (Indian Ocean))
* Southern tubelip ''Labropsis australis'' Randall, 1981 (Great Barrier Reef and Solomon Islands to Fiji and Samoa)
* Yellowback tubelip ''Labropsis xanthonota'' Randall, 1981 (East Africa to Micronesia and Samoa)
* Shoulderspot wrasse ''Leptojulis cyanopleura'' (Bleeker, 1853) (Gulf of Oman to Philippines and Great Barrier Reef)
* Choat's wrasse ''Macropharyngodon choati'' Randall, 1978 (Southern Great Barrier Reef)
* Kuiter's wrasse ''Macropharyngodon kuiteri'' Randall, 1978 (New South Wales and southern Great Barrier Reef to New Caledonia)
* Blackspotted wrasse ''Macropharyngodon meleagris'' (Valenciennes, 1839) syn. ''Leptojulis pardalis'' (Cocos-Keeling Islands to western Pacific and the Islands of Oceania)
* Black wrasse ''Macropharyngodon negrosensis'' Herre, 1932 (Western Pacific)
* Rockmover wrasse ''Novaculichthys taeniourus'' (Lacepede, 1801) (Indo-Pacific)
* Twospot Maori wrasse ''Oxycheilinus bimaculatis'' (Valenciennes, 1840) (Indo-Pacific)
* Cheeklined Maori wrasse ''Oxycheilinus digramma'' (Lacepede, 1801) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa and the Marshall Islands)
* Ringtail Maori wrasse ''Oxycheilinus unifasciatus'' (Streets, 1877) (Central and western Pacific, Hawaii)
* Disappearing wrasse ''Pseudocheilinus evanidus'' Jordan and Evermann, 1903 (Indo-Pacific)
* Sixstripe wrasse ''Pseudocheilinus hexataenia'' (Bleeker, 1857) (Indo-Pacific)
* Eightstripe wrasse ''Pseudocheilinus octotaenia'' Jenkins, 1900 (Indo-Pacific)
* Redspot wrasse ''Pseudocoris yamashiroi'' (Schmidt, 1930) (Western Pacific to Micronesia and Samoa)
* Chiseltooth wrasse ''Pseudodax moluccanus'' (Valenciennes, 1839) (Indo-Pacific)
* Smalltail wrasse ''Pseudojuloides cerasinus'' (Snyder, 1904) (Indo-Pacific)
* Gunther's wrasse ''Pseudolabrus guentheri'' Bleeker, 1862 (Montague Island, New South Wales, to Whitsunday Group, Queensland.) (New South Wales to southern Great Barrier Reef)
* Redstriped wrasse ''Pteragogus enneacanthus'' (Bleeker, 1853) syn. ''P. amboinensis'' (Indonesia to the Coral Sea)
* Cryptic wrasse ''Pteragogus cryptus'' Randall, 1981 (Red Sea and western Pacific to Micronesia and Samoa)
* Bluelined wrasse ''Stethojulis bandanensis'' (Bleeker, 1851) syn. ''S rubromaculata, S. linearis'' (Western Pacific and islands of Oceania and the eastern Pacific except Hawaii)
* Cutribbon wrasse ''Stethojulis interrupta'' (Bleeker, 1851) syn. ''S. kalosoma'' (East Africa to Samoa and the Mariana Islands)
* Stripebelly wrasse ''Stethojulis strigiventer'' (Bennett, 1832) syn. ''S. renardi'' (East Africa to Micronesia and Samoa)
* Three-ribbon wrasse ''Stethojulis trilineata'' (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) syn. ''S. phekadopleura'' (Maldives to western Pacific)
* Slender wrasse ''Suezichthys gracilis'' (Steindachner and Doederlein, 1887) (Antitropical. Known from southern Japan, Korea and Taiwan in the north and New South Wales and the southern Great Barrier Reef to New Caledonia in the south)
* Bluntheaded wrasse ''Thalassoma amblycephalum'' (Bleeker, 1856) syn. ''T. melanochir''(Indo-Pacific)
* Sixbar wrasse ''Thalassoma hardwicke'' (Bennett, 1828) syn. ''T. schwanefeldii'' (Indo-Pacific)
* Jansen's wrasse ''Thalassoma jansenii'' (Bleeker, 1856) (Maldives to the western Pacific and Fiji)
* Moon wrasse ''Thalassoma lunare'' (Linnaeus 1758) (Indo-Pacific)
* Sunset wrasse ''Thalassoma lutescens'' (Lay and Bennett, 1839) (Indo-Pacific and Clipperton Island in the eastern Pacific, but apparently absent from the Indo-Malayan region and southern Indian Ocean)
* Surge wrasse ''Thalassoma purpureum'' (Forsskal, 1775) syn. ''T. umbrostygma'' (Indo-Pacific)
* Fivestripe wrasse ''Thalassoma quinquevittatum'' (Lay and Bennett, 1839) (Indo-Pacific)
* Ladder wrasse ''Thalassoma trilobatum'' (Lacepede, 1801) (Indo-Pacific)
* Whitebanded sharpnose wrasse ''Wetmorella albofasciata'' (Schultz and Marshall, 1954) (Indo-Pacific)
* Sharpnose wrasse ''Wetmorella nigropinnata'' (Seale, 1901) syn. ''W. philippinus, W. ocellata, W. triocellata'' (Indo-Pacific)
* Fivefinger razorfish ''Xyrichthys pentadactylus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the western Pacific)
Family Scaridae - Parrotfishes
* Bumphead parrotfish ''Bolbometopon muricatum'' (Valenciennes, 1840) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa and the Line Islands in the central Pacific)
* Stareye parrotfish ''Calotomus carolinus'' (Valenciennes, 1840) syn. ''C. sandwicensis'' (Indo-Pacific and tropical east Pacific)
* Raggedtooth parrotfish ''Calotomus spinidens'' (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824) (East Africa to Tonga and the Marshall Islands)
* Bicolour parrotfish ''Cetoscarus bicolor'' (Rueppell, 1829) syn. ''Scarus pulchellus'' (Indo-Pacific)
* Bleeker's parrotfish ''Chlorurus bleekeri'' (de Beaufort, 1940) syn. ''S. bleekeri'' ((as ''S. bleekeri'') Western Pacific to Fiji and the islands of Micronesia)
* Reefcrest parrotfish ''Chlorurus frontalis'' (Valenciennes, 1840) (Western Pacific to Islands of Oceania)
* Redtail parrotfish ''Chlorurus japanensis'' (Bloch, 1789) syn. ''Scarus pyrrhurus'' (Western Pacific to Samoa)
* Steephead parrotfish ''Chlorurus microrhinos'' (Bleeker, 1854) (Western Pacific and Islands of Oceania)
* Bullethead parrotfish ''Chlorurus sordidus'' (Forsskal, 1775) (Indo-Pacific)
* Pacific longnose parrotfish ''Hipposcarus longiceps'' (Valenciennes. 1840) (Western Pacific to French Polynesia)
* Slender parrotfish, marbled parrotfish ''Leptoscarus vaigiensis'' (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824) (Scattered localities in the Indo-Pacific)
* Minifin parrotfish ''Scarus altipinnis'' (Steindachner, 1879) syn. ''S. brevifilis'' (Great Barrier Reef and Islands of Oceania)
* Chameleon parrotfish ''Scarus chameleon'' Choat and Randall, 1986 (Western Australia to western Pacific and Fiji)
* Bridled parrotfish ''Scarus frenatus'' (Lacepede, 1802) syn. ''S. sexvittatus'' (Indo-Pacific)
* Bluebarred parrotfish ''Scarus ghobban'' Forsskal, 1775 (Indo-Pacific and tropical eastern Pacific)
* Globehead parrotfish ''Scarus globiceps'' Valenciennes, 1840 (Indo-Pacific)
* Highfin parrotfish ''Scarus longipinnis'' Randall and Choat, 1980 (Southern subtropical Pacific from the Great Barrier Reef to Pitcairn Islands)
* Swarthy parrotfish ''Scarus niger'' Forsskal, 1775 (Indo-Pacific)
* Egghead parrotfish ''Scarus oviceps'' Valenciennes, 1840 (Western Pacific and Islands of Oceania)
* Whitespot parrotfish, Palenose parrotfish ''Scarus psittacus'' Forsskål, 1775 syn. ''Scarus forsteri'' (Bleeker, 1861) ((as ''S. forsteri'') Western Pacific to Micronesia and Pitcairn Group) ((as ''S. psittacus'') Indo-Pacific)
* Surf parrotfish ''Scarus rivulatus'' Valenciennes, 1840 syn. ''S. fasciatus'' (Western Pacific to the Caroline Islands and New Caledonia)
* Ember parrotfish ''Scarus rubroviolaceus'' Bleeker, 1847 (Indo-Pacific and tropical eastern Pacific)
* Schlegel's parrotfish ''Scarus schlegeli'' (Bleeker, 1861) (Western Pacific and Islands of Oceania)
* Greensnout parrotfish ''Scarus spinus'' (Kner, 1868) (Western Pacific to Micronesia and Samoa)
Family Opistognathidae - Jawfishes, smilers
* Papuan jawfish ''Opistognathus papuensis'' (Bleeker, 1868) (Southern New Guinea and northern Queensland)
* Coral sea jawfish ''Opistognathus'' sp. (Known only from Lizard Island and Lihou Reef in the Coral Sea)
Family Uranoscopidae – Stargazers
* Whitemargin stargazer ''Uranoscopus sulphureus'' Valenciennes, 1831 syn ''U. fuscomaculatus'' (Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, Indonesia and the Red Sea)
Family Trichonotidae - Sand-divers
* Spotted sand-diver ''Trichonotus setiger'' (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (Persian Gulf to Queensland and Melanesia)
* Threadfin sand-diver ''Trichonotus'' sp. (Coral sea, Marians and Marshall Islands)
Family Creediidae - Sand burrowers
* Sand dart ''Chalixodytes chameleontoculis'' Smith, 1957
* Barred sand burrower ''Limnichthys fasciatus'' Waite, 1904 (Western Pacific from Japan to Australia and the Kermadec Islands)
* ''Limnichthys nitidus'' Smith, 1958 syn. ''Limnichthys donaldsoni'' (as ''L. donaldsoni'')
Family Pinguipedidae – Grubfishes, weevers, sandperches
* Latticed sandperch ''Parapercis clathrata'' Ogilby, 1911 (Western Pacific to Samoa and the islands of Micronesia)
* Sharpnose sandperch ''Parapercis cylindrica'' (Bloch, 1797) (Western Pacific to Fiji and the Marshall Islands)
* Speckled sandperch ''Parapercis hexophtalma'' (Cuvier, 1829) syn, ''P. polyophtalma'' (East Africa and the Red Sea to the western Pacific and Fiji)
* Spotted sandperch ''Parapercis millepunctata'' (Guenther, 1860) (Maldives to the islands of Oceania)
* Redbarred sandperch ''Parapercis multiplicata'' Randall, 1984 (Ryukyu Islands, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Western Australia and the Coral Sea)
* Barred sandperch ''Parapercis nebulosa'' (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825) (Western Australia to New South Wales)
* Redspotted sandperch ''Parapercis schauinslandii'' (Steindachner, 1900) (Indo-Pacific)
* U-mark sandperch ''Parapercis snyderi'' Jordan and Starcks, 1905 (Western Pacific)
* Yellowbar sandperch ''Parapercis xanthozona'' (Bleeker, 1849) (East Africa to western Pacific and Fiji)
Family Tripterygiidae – Triplefins, threefins
* Highfin triplefin ''Enneapterygius tutuilae'' Jordan and Seale, 1906 syn. ''E. altipinnis'' (Indo-Pacific)
* Saddled triplefin ''Enneapterygius atrogulare'' (Guenther, 18??) syn. ''E. annulatus'' (Indo-Pacific)
* Tailbar triplefin ''Enneapterygius'' sp. (Indo-Pacific)
* Neon triplefin ''Helcogramma striatum'' Hansen, 1986 (Sri-lanka to western Pacific and Line Islands)
* Red-finned triplefin ''Ucla xenogrammus'' Holleman, 1993 (Indo-Pacific)
* Bigmouth triplefin ''Ucla'' sp. (Indo-Pacific)
Family Blenniidae – Blennies
Tribe Nemophini -Sabretooth blennies, fangblennies
* Lance blenny ''Aspidontus dussumieri'' (Valenciennes, 1836) (Indo-Pacific)
* Mimic blenny ''Aspidontus taeniatus'' Quoy and Gaimard, 1834 (Indo-Pacific)
* Yellowtail fangblenny ''Meiacanthus atrodorsalis'' (Guenther, 1877) (Western Australia and western Pacific to Micronesia and Samoa)
* Doublepore fangblenny ''Meiacanthus ditrema'' Smith-Vaniz, 1976 (Western Australia and western Pacific to Samoa and Tonga)
* Striped fangblenny ''Meiacanthus grammistes'' (Valenciennes, 1836) (Western Australia and western Pacific to Caroline Islands and Santa Cruz Islands)
* Lined fangblenny ''Meiacanthus lineatus'' (De Vis, 1884) (Great Barrier Reef)
* Yellow fangblenny ''Meiacanthus luteus'' Smith-Vaniz, 1987 (Western Australia, 20°S to Queensland, 19°S)
Subfamily Blenniinae
* Black blenny ''Enchelyurus ater'' (Guenther, 1877) (Southern Oceania from the Coral Sea to the Tuamotu Archipelago, but not the Great Barrier Reef)
* Krauss's blenny ''Enchelyurus kraussii'' (Klunzinger, 171) (Comores, Seychelles and Red Sea to the western Pacific and Mariana Islands)
* Oyster blenny ''Omobranchus anolius'' (Valenciennes, 1836) (Spencer gulf, South Australia to the Queensland coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria)
* Hepburn's blenny ''Parenchelyurus hepburni'' (Snyder, 1908) (Western Pacific to Samoa and the Marshall Islands)
* Deceiver fangblenny ''Petroscirtes fallax'' Smith-Vaniz, 1976 (Great Barrier Reef south of 17°S to New South Wales)
* Wolf fangblenny, Brown sabretooth blenny ''Petroscirtes lupus'' (De Vis, 1886) (Queensland, New South Wales, Lord Howe Island and New Caledonia) (Merimbula, New South Wales, to southern Queensland. Also New Caledonia.)
* Highfin fangblenny ''Petroscirtes mitratus'' Rueppell, 1830 (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa, Tonga and the islands of Micronesia)
* Variable fangblenny ''Petroscirtes variabilis'' Cantor, 1850 (Sri Lanka to the western Pacific)
* Smooth fangblenny ''Petroscirtes xestus'' Jordan and Seale, 1906 (Indo-Pacific)
* Bicolour fangblenny ''Plagiotremus laudandus'' (Whitley, 1961) (Western Australia and western Pacific to Samoa and the islands of Micronesia)
* Bluestriped fangblenny, blue-lined sabretooth blenny ''Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos'' (Bleeker, 1852) (Indo-Pacific except Hawaii) (Tropical Australia south to Walpole, Western Australia, and to Merimbula, New South Wales. Also widespread in the Indo-West Pacific region.)
* Piano fangblenny, hit and run blenny, yellow sabretooth blenny ''Plagiotremus tapeinosoma'' (Bleeker, 1857) (Tropical Australia south to Rottnest Island, Western Australia, and to Merimbula, New South Wales. Also widespread in the Indo-West Pacific region.) (Indo-Pacific except Hawaii)
* Hairtail blenny ''Xiphasia setifer'' Swainson, 1839 (East Africa and the Red Sea to western Pacific including New Caledonia and Vanuatu)
Subfamily Salariinae
* Brown coral blenny ''Atrosalarias fuscus'' (Rueppell, 1835) (Indo-Pacific)
* White-dotted blenny ''Cirripectes alboapicalis'' (Ogilby, 1899) syn. ''C. patuki'' (Southern subtropical Pacific from the southern Great Barrier Reef and Lord Howe Island to Easter Island)
* Chestnut blenny ''Cirripectes castaneus'' (Valenciennes, 1836) syn. ''C. sebae'' (East Africa and the Red Sea to Tonga and the Caroline Islands)
* Lady Musgrave blenny ''Cirripectes chelomatus'' Williams and Maugé, 1983 (Great Barrier Reef and Lord Howe Island to Tonga and Fiji)
* Filamentous blenny ''Cirripectes filamentosus'' (Alleyne and Macleay, 1877) (Western Indian Ocean including Persian Gulf and southern Red Sea to western Pacific)
* Barred blenny ''Cirripectes polyzona'' (Bleeker, 1868) (East Africa to Samoa and the Line Islands)
* Zebra blenny ''Cirripectes quagga'' (Fowler and Ball, 1924) (Indo-Pacific)
* Reticulated blenny ''Cirripectes stigmaticus'' Strasburg and Schultz, 1953 (East Africa to Samoa and islands of Micronesia)
* Triplespot blenny ''Crossosalarias macrospilus'' Smith-Vaniz and Springer, 1971 (Western Pacific to Tonga)
* Fourline blenny ''Ecsenius aequalis'' Springer, 1988 (Great Barrier Reef, Coral Sea, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea)
* Australian blenny ''Ecsenius australianus'' Springer, 1988 (Northern Great Barrier Reef)
* Bicolour blenny ''Ecsenius bicolor'' (Day, 1888) (Maldives to the islands of Micronesia and Samoa)
* Queensland blenny ''Ecsenius mandibularis'' McCulloch, 1923 (Queensland from Cape Yorke Peninsula at 12°S to the Bunger Group, southern Great Barrier Reef)
* Midas blenny ''Ecsenius midas'' Starck, 1969 (Indo-Pacific)
* Great Barrier Reef blenny ''Ecsenius stictus'' Springer, 1988 (Great Barrier Reef)
* Tiger blenny ''Ecsenius tigris'' Springer, 1988 (Osprey, Bougainville and Holmes reefs in the western Coral Sea)
* Wavyline rockskipper ''Entomacrodus decussatus'' (Bleeker, 1858) (Western Australia to western and central Pacific)
* Blackspotted rockskipper ''Entomacrodus striatus'' (Quoy and Gaimard, 1836) syn. ''E. plurifilis'' (Indo-Pacific)
* Shortbodied blenny ''Exallias brevis'' (Kner, 1868) ((Indo-Pacific)
* Goldspotted rockskipper ''Blenniella chrysospilos'' (Bleeker, 1857) syn. ''Salarias coronatus'' (Indo-Pacific)
* Dussumier's rockskipper ''Istiblennius dussumieri'' (Valenciennes. 1836) (East Africa to western Pacific)
* Rippled rockskipper ''Istiblennius edentulus'' (Forster, 1801) (Indo-Pacific)
* Lined rockskipper ''Istiblennius lineatus'' (Valenciennes, 1836) (Maldive to Pitcairn group)
* Peacock rockskipper ''Istiblennius meleagris'' (Valenciennes, 1836) (Western Australia to Queensland)
* Bullethead rockskipper ''Blenniella paula'' (Bryan and Herre, 1903) (Great Barrier Reef and the Islands of Oceania except Hawaii and Easter Island)
* Throatspot blenny ''Nannosalarias nativitatis'' (Regan, 1909) (Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) to western Pacific and Tonga)
* Barred-chin blenny ''Rhabdoblennius nitidus'' (Günther, 1861) syn. ''Rhabdoblennius ellipes'' ((As ''R. ellipes'')Great Barrier Reef and islands of Oceania)
* Jewelled blenny ''Salarias fasciatus'' (Bloch, 1786) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa and the islands of Micronesia)
* Fringelip blenny ''Salarias sinuosus'' Snyder, 1908 (Western Pacific)
* Talbot's blenny ''Stanulus talboti'' Springer, 1968 (Great Barrier Reef, Lord Howe Island, Ryukyu Islands and Ogasawara Islands)
Family Callionymidae - Dragonets
* Goram dragonet ''Diplogrammus goramensis'' (Bleeker, 1858) (Western Pacific from China to Fiji)
* Morrison's dragonet ''Synchiropus morrisoni'' Schultz, 1960 (Japan to Australia and east to the Marshall Islands and Fiji)
* Ocellated dragonet ''Synchiropus ocellatus'' (Pallas, 1770) (Japan to Australia and east to Pitcairn Island)
* Mandarinfish ''Synchiropus splendidus'' (Herre, 1927) (Western Pacific from the Ryukyu Islands to Australia)
Family Eleotridae - Gudgeons, sleepers
* Tailface sleeper ''Calumia godeffroyi'' (Guenther, 1877) (East Africa to the Society Islands)
Family Xenisthmidae - Wrigglers
* Bullseye wriggler ''Xenisthmus polyzonatus'' (Red Sea to Samoa and north to the Ryukyu Islands)
Family Gobiidae – Gobies
* Spotted shrimp goby ''Amblyeleotris guttata'' (Fowler, 1938) (East Indies to Samoa and north to the Ryukyu Islands)
* Blotchy shrimp goby ''Amblyeleotris periophthalma'' (Bleeker, 1853) (Western Pacific eastwards to Samoa)
* Steinitz's shrimp goby ''Amblyeleotris steinitzi'' (Klausewitz, 1974) (Red Sea to Samoa)
* Wheeler's shrimp goby ''Amblyeleotris wheeleri'' (Polunin and Lubbock, 1977) (East Africa to Australia and the Marshall Islands)
* Orange-striped goby ''Amblygobius decussatus'' (Bleeker, 1855) (Western Pacific)
* Banded goby ''Amblygobius phalaena'' (Valenciennes, 1837) (Indo-Pacific)
* Old glory ''Amblygobius rainfordi'' (Whitley, 1940) (Queensland and Coral Sea to Philippines)
* Sphynx goby ''Amblygobius sphynx'' (Valenciennes, 1837) (East Africa to Western Pacific)
* Starry goby ''Asteropteryx semipunctata'' Rueppell, 1830 (East Africa and the Red Sea to Hawaiian Islands and Tuamotus)
* Common goby ''Bathygobius fuscus'' (Rueppell, 1830) (East Africa and Red Sea to Tuamotus and Hawaiian Islands)
* Cocos goby ''Bathygobius cocosensis'' (Bleeker, 1854) (East Africa to the Hawaiian Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago)
* Large whip goby ''Bryaninops amplus'' Larson, 1985 (Madagascar and the Seychelles to the Hawaiian Islands)
* Erythrops goby ''Bryaninops erythrops'' (Jordan and Seale, 1906) (Chagos Archipelago to Marhall Islands and Samoa)
* Redeye goby ''Bryaninops natans'' Larson, 18985 (Red Sea to Micronesia and Cook Islands)
* Black coral goby ''Bryaninops tigris'' Larson, 1985 (Chagos Archipelago to Hawaiian Islands)
* Whip goby ''Bryaninops yongei'' (Davis and Cohen, 1968) (Australia to Hawaiian Islands and Rapa)
* Ostrich goby ''Callogobius maculipinnis'' (Fowler, 1918) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa and the Marshall Islands)
* Tripleband goby ''Callogobius sclateri'' (Steindachner, 1880) (Indo-Pacific)
* Yellow shrimp goby ''Cryptocentrus cinctus'' (Herre, 1936) (Western Pacific)
* Y-bar shrimp goby ''Cryptocentrus fasciatus'' (Playfair and Guenther, 1867) (East Africa to Melanesia and the Great Barrier Reef)
* Saddled shrimp goby ''Cryptocentrus leucostictus'' (Guenther, 1871) (Western Pacific)
* Target shrimp goby ''Cryptocentrus strigilliceps'' (Jordan and Seale, 1906) (East Africa to the Marshall Islands and Samoa)
* Spotfin shrimp goby ''Ctenogobiops pomastictus'' Lubbock and Polunin, 1977 (Queensland to Ryukyo Islands, east to Mariana Islands)
* Masted shrimp goby ''Ctenogobiops tangaroai'' Lubbock and Polunin, 1977 (Australia to Samoa)
* Spikefin goby ''Discordipinna griessingeri'' Hoese and Fourmanoir, 1978 (Red Sea to the Marquesas)
* Doublebar goby ''Eviota bifasciata'' Lachner and Karnella, 1989 (Philippines and Indonesia to northern Australia)
* Blackbelly goby ''Eviota nigriventris'' Giltay, 1933 (Philippines to Melanesia and eastern Australia)
* Beautiful goby ''Exyrias belissimus'' (Smith, 1959) (East Africa to Samoa)
* ''Exyrias puntang'' Bleeker (Queensland)
* Novice goby ''Fusigobius neophytus'' (Günther, 1877) syn. ''Coryphopterus neophytus'' ((as ''C. neophytus'')East Africa to the Tuamotus)
* Blotched sand goby ''Coryphopterus'' sp. (Western Pacific)
* Shoulderspot goby ''Gnatholepis cauerensis'' (Bleeker, 1853) syn. ''Gnatholepis scapulostigma'' Herre, 1953 ((as ''G. scapulostigma'') Eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific)
* Fourbar goby ''Gobiodon citrinus'' (Rueppell, 1838) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa)
* Broad-barred goby ''Gobiodon histrio'' (Valenciennes, 1837) (Western Pacific)
* Small-eyed goby ''Gobiodon micropus'' (Guenther, 1861) (Indo-Pacific)
* Okinawa goby ''Gobiodon okinawae'' (Sawada, Arai and Abe, 1973) (Western Pacific, Japan to Australia)
* Decorated goby ''Istigobius decoratus'' (Herre, 1927) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa)
* Orange-spotted goby ''Istigobius rigilius'' (Herre, 1953) (Molucca and Philippine Islands to Australia and east to Fiji and the Marshall Islands)
* Whitecap goby ''Lotilia graciliosa'' Klausewitz, 1960 (Red Sea to Southern Japan, Marshall Islands and Fiji)
* Wilbur's goby ''Macrodontogobius wilburi'' Herre, 1926 (Seychelles to New Caledonia and Line Islands)
* Spinecheek goby ''Oplopomus oplopomus'' (Valenciennes, 1837) (East Africa to Society Islands)
* Redhead goby ''Paragobiodon echinocephalus'' Rueppell, 1828 (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Tuamotus and Marshall Islands)
* Yellowskin goby ''Paragobiodon xanthosoma'' (Bleeker, 1852) (Chagos Archipelago to Samoa)
* Silverlined mudskipper ''Periophthalmus argentilineatus'' (Valenciennes, 1837) (Southern Red Sea south to Natal and east to the Marianas and Samoa)
* Coral goby ''Pleurosicya micheli'' Fourmanoir, 1971 (Indo-Pacific)
* Girdled goby ''Priolepis cincta'' (Regan, 1908) syn. ''P. naraharae'' (East Africa to southeastern Polynesia)
* Trinspot goby ''Signigobius biocellatus'' Hoese and Allen, 1977 (Philippines, Indonesia and Palau Islands to Melanesia and the Great Barrier Reef)
* Yellownose shrimp goby ''Stonogobiops xanthorhinica'' Hoese and Randall, 1982 Western edge of Pacific from Japan to the Great Barrier Reef)
* Orange-red goby ''Trimma okinawae'' (Aoyagi, 1949) (Western Pacific)
* Stripehead goby ''Trimma striatum'' (Herre, 1945) (Philippines to Australia)
* Orange-spotted goby ''Trimma'' sp.1 (in Randall 1997) (DFH-9 - Hoese) (Western Pacific)
* Benjamin's goby ''Trimma benjamini'' Winterbottom, 1996 (Western Pacific)
* Twostripe goby ''Valenciennea helsdingenii'' (Bleeker, 1858) (East Africa to the western Pacific)
* Long finned goby ''Valenciennea longipinnis'' (Lay and Bennett, 1839) (Eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific)
* Striped goby ''Valenciennea muralis'' (Valenciennes, 1837) (Indonesia to Melanesia and northern Australia)
* Orange-dashed goby ''Valenciennea puellaris'' (Tomiyama, 1956) (Red Sea to Samoa and the Marshall Islands)
* Sixspot goby ''Valenciennea sexguttata'' (Valenciennes, 1837) (East Africa to Samoa and the Marshall Islands)
* Blueband goby ''Valenciennea strigata'' (Broussonet, 1782) (East Africa to Society Islands and Line Islands)
* Parva goby ''Valenciennea parva'' Hoese and Larson, 1994 (Western Pacific)
* Elegant goby ''Valenciennea decora'' Hoese and Larson, 1994 (Great Barrier Reef to New Caledonia)
* Ambanoro goby ''Vanderhorstia ambanoro'' (Fourmanoir, 1957) (East Africa to Samoa)
* Ocellated goby ''Vanderhorstia ornatissima'' Smith, 1959 (East Africa to Samoa)
* Shadow goby ''Acentrogobius nebulosus'' (Forsskål, 1775) syn.''Yongeichthys nebulosus'' ((as ''Y. nebulosus'') East Africa to western Pacific)
Family Microdesmidae - Wormfishes, dartfishes
* Curious wormfish ''Gunnellichthys curiosus'' Dawson, 1968 (Seychelles, Maldives, Indonesia, Coral Sea, Society Islands and Hawaii)
* Onespot wormfish ''Gunnellichthys monostigma'' Smith, 1958 syn. ''Gunnellichthys monostigmata'' Smith, 1958 ((as ''G. monostigmata'') Indo-Pacific)
* Brownstripe wormfish ''Gunnellichthys pleurotaenia'' Bleeker, 1858 (Western Pacific east to Samoa and the Mariana Islands)
* Yellowstripe wormfish ''Gunnellichthys viridescens'' (Seychelles, Maldives, Marshall Islands and Great Barrier Reef)
* Elegant firefish ''Nemateleotris decora'' Randall and Allen, 1973 (Islands of the western Indian Ocean to the Western Pacific)
* Fire dartfish ''Nemateleotris magnifica'' Fowler, 1938 (Indo-Pacific)
* Twotone dartfish ''Ptereleotris evides'' (Jordan and Hubbs, 1925) syn. ''P. tricolor'' (Indo-Pacific)
* Lined dartfish ''Ptereleotris grammica'' Randall and Lubbock, 1982 (Western Pacific)
* Threadfin dartfish ''Ptereleotris hanae'' (Jordan and Snyder, 1901) (Western Australia to western Pacific and east to Samoa and the Line Islands)
* Spottail dartfish ''Ptereleotris heteroptera'' Bleeker, 1855 (Indo-Pacific)
* Pale dartfish ''Ptereleotris microlepis'' (Bleeker, 1856) (Indo-Pacific)
* Monofin dartfish ''Ptereleotris monoptera'' Randall and Hoese, 1985 (Indo-Pacific from scattered localities)
* Bandtail dartfish ''Ptereleotris uroditaenia'' Randall and Hoese, 1985 (Indonesia, Solomon Islands and Great Barrier Reef)
* Zebra dartfish ''Ptereleotris zebra'' Fowler, 1938 (Indo-Pacific)
Family Acanthuridae - Surgeonfishes
Subfamily Acanthurinae
* Whitefin surgeonfish ''Acanthurus albipectoralis'' Allen and Ayling, 1987 (Great Barrier Reef and of the Coral Sea to Tonga)
* Orange-socket surgeonfish ''Acanthurus auranticavus'' Randall, 1956 (Maldives, Philippines, Indonesia and the Great Barrier Reef)
* Roundspot surgeonfish ''Acanthurus bariene'' Lesson, 1830 syn. ''A. nummifer'' (Maldives to the western Pacific)
* Ringtail surgeonfish ''Acanthurus blochii'' Valenciennes, 1835 (Indo-Pacific)
* Eyestripe surgeonfish ''Acanthurus dussumieri'' Valenciennes, 1835 (East Africa to the Line Islands and Hawaii)
* Finelined surgeonfish ''Acanthurus grammoptilus'' Richardson, 1843 (Philippines to Australia including the Great Barrier Reef)
* Whitespotted surgeonfish ''Acanthurus guttatus'' Forster, 1801 (Islands of the western Indian Ocean to Oceania)
* Striped surgeonfish ''Acanthurus lineatus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (Indo-Pacific except Red Sea)
* Elongate surgeonfish ''Acanthurus mata'' (Cuvier, 1829) (Indo-Pacific)
* Whitecheek surgeonfish ''Acanthurus nigricans'' (Linnaeus, 1758) syn. ''A. glaucopareius'' (Islands of the tropical Pacific including eastern Pacific)
* Blackstreak surgeonfish ''Acanthurus nigricauda'' Duncker and Mohr, 1929 (Indo-Pacific)
* Brown surgeonfish ''Acanthurus nigrofuscus'' (Forsskal, 1775) (Indo-Pacific)
* Bluelined surgeonfish ''Acanthurus nigroris'' Valenciennes, 1835 (Islands of Oceania)
* Orangeband surgeonfish ''Acanthurus olivaceus'' Forster, 1801 (Western Pacific and islands of Oceania)
* Mimic surgeonfish ''Acanthurus pyroferus'' Kittlitz, 1834 (Western Pacific to islands of Oceania)
* Thompson's surgeonfish ''Acanthurus thompsoni'' (Fowler, 1923) syn. ''A. philppinus'' (Indo-Pacific)
* Convict surgeonfish ''Acanthurus triostegus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (Indo-Pacific and tropical eastern Pacific)
* Yellowfin surgeonfish ''Acanthurus xanthopterus'' (Valenciennes, 1835) (Indo-Pacific and tropical eastern Pacific)
* Twospot bristletooth ''Ctenochaetus binotatus'' Randall, 1955 (Indo-Pacific)
* Lined bristletooth ''Ctenochaetus striatus'' (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825) (Indo-Pacific)
* Goldring bristletooth ''Ctenochaetus strigosus'' (Bennett, 1828) (Indo-Pacific)
* Palette surgeonfish ''Paracanthurus hepatus'' (Linnaeus, 1766) (East Africa to Samoa, Kiribati and Mariana Islands)
* Brushtail tang ''Zebrasoma scopas'' (Cuvier, 1829) (Indo-Pacific)
* Sailfin tang ''Zebrasoma veliferum'' (Bloch, 1797) (Western Pacific and islands of Oceania)
Subfamily Nasinae
* Whitemargin unicornfish ''Naso annulatus'' (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825) syn. ''N. herrei'' (Indo-Pacific)
* Humpback unicornfish ''Naso brachycentron'' (Valenciennes, 1835) (Indo-Pacific)
* Spotted unicornfish ''Naso brevirostris'' (Valenciennes, 1835) (Indo-Pacific)
* Sleek unicornfish ''Naso hexacanthus'' (Bleeker, 1855) (Indo-Pacific)
* Orangespine unicornfish ''Naso lituratus'' (Forster, 1801) (Indo-Pacific)
* Elongate unicornfish ''Naso lopezi'' Herre, 1927 (Western Pacific)
* Grey unicornfish ''Naso caesius'' Randall and Bell, 1992 (Antiequatorial in Oceania including New Caledonia and the southern Coral Sea)
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Family Zanclidae - Moorish idol
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Family Siganidae – Rabbitfishes, spinefeet
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Family Istiophoridae - Billfishes
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Family Scombridae – Mackerels, tunas
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* Southern bluefin tuna ''Thunnus maccoyi'' Castelnau, 1872 (Western Australia to southern Queensland and around Tasmania. Also widespread in the southern hemisphere.)
Order Mugiliformes
Family Mugilidae – Mullets
* Fringelip mullet ''Crenimugil crenilabis'' (Forsskal, 1775) (East Africa to Line and Tuamotu Islands)
* Diamond-scale mullet ''Liza vaigiensis'' (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)Bailly, N. (2013). Liza vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218879 on 2014-03-14 syn. ''Ellochelon vaigensis'' ((as ''E. vaigensis'') East Africa and the Red Sea to the Tuamotus)
Order Pleuronectiformes
Family Bothidae - Lefteye flounders
Family Pleuronectidae – Righteye flounders
Order Tetraodontiformes
Family Balistidae
Family Monacanthidae – Leatherjackets, filefishes
*Fanbelly leatherjacket ''Monacanthus chinensis'' (Osbeck, 1765) (Tropical Australia south to Geographe Bay, Western Australia, and to Western Port, Victoria. Also widespread in the Indo-West Pacific region.)
Family Ostraciidae – Boxfishes, cowfishes, trunkfishes
*Humpback turretfish ''Tetrosomus gibbosus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (Tropical Australia south to Albany, Western Australia, and to Cape Conran, Victoria. Also widespread in the Indo-West Pacific region.)
Family Tetraodontidae – Toadfishes, pufferfishes
Family Diodontidae – Porcupine fishes