Red Sea fish species

Starry Trigger fish

Indian and western pacific, 40cm, 10-80m deep, powerful jaws

Starry Triggerfish

Indian and western pacific, 40cm, 10-80m deep, powerful jaws

Scissortail sergeant,

Damselfish, Indian and Pacific Ocean, up to 15cm, smaller than the five-banded sergeant major, can change sex depending on social group

Scissortail sergeant,

Damselfish, Indian and Pacific Ocean, up to 15cm, smaller than the five-banded sergeant major, can change sex depending on social group

Five-banded Sergeant Major

Damselfish, Indian and Pacific Ocean yellow tint and no black stripes on the tail like the scissortail sergeant has

Five-banded Sergeant Major,

Damselfish, Indian and Pacific Ocean yellow tint and no black stripes on the tail like the scissortail sergeant has

Pale surgeonfish,

blue gray color, common in Indo-Pacific. Indian and pacific, 45cm

Brown surgeonfish,

Indian and pacific, 18cm

Brown surgeonfish,

Indian and pacific, 18cm

Shoal surgeonfish,

Native Persian gulf, invasive on the Greek coasts, Indian Ocean, 35cm

Spotted eagle ray

180cm, Atlantic, Pacific and Indian, can grow to over 3m, endangered

Pelagic thresher shark

Indian and pacific, carnivorous, endangered, used tail to strike prey

Pinkbar goby

gobiidae family, Indian Ocean, 9cm, lives as a couple or alone, carnivorous

Twoband anenomefish

The Red Sea clownfish, Indian Ocean, 10cm

Giant frogfish

A species of euryhaline ray-finned fish belonging to the Antennariidae family, Indian and pacific, 30cm

Painted frogfish,

16cm, Indian and pacific

Masked puffer

25cm, Red Sea and parts of western Indian Ocean

White-spotted puffer

40cm, swell with water and triple in size to impress predators, can bite, Indian and pacific

Immaculate puffer

Native to the Japan sea, Red Sea, southeast Asian seas, Indonesian seas, Indian Ocean , 25cm

Map puffer, native to GBR, Philippine sea, Sea of Japan, Red Sea, Southeast Asian seas, Indonesian Seas and Eastern Indian, 50cm

Guineafowl puffer

Stellate puffer

Hardyhead silverside

Brown coral Blenny

A species of combtooth blenny

Chinese trumpetfish

Orange-lined triggerfish

Titan triggerfish

Lyre-tail hogfish

Turncoat hogfish

Diana’s hogfish

Flowery flounder

Or peacock flounder

Leopard flounder

Blue and gold fusilier

Yellowback fusilier

Comet

Or marine betta

Honeycomb filefish

Valentini’s sharpnose puffer

Giant Trevally

Bigeye trevally

Grey reef shark

Silky shark

Bull shark

Blacktip reef shark

Sandbar shark

Sand tiger shark

Blacktail angelfish

Multispined angelfish

Peacock grouper

Miniatus grouper

Bicolour parrotfish

Threadfin butterflyfish

Blacktail butterflyfish

Red Sea raccoon butterflyfish

Blacklip butterflyfish

Lined butterflyfish

Black-backed butterflyfish

Bluecheek butterflyfish

Triangulate butterflyfish

Milkfish (chanos chanos)

Broomtail wrasse

Whitebarred wrasse

Tripletail wrasse

Humphead wrasse

Cigar wrasse

Five-lined cardinalfish

Grey bamboo shark

Heavyback parrotfish

Indian Ocean steephead parrotfish

Half-and-half chromis

Blue-green chromis

Coral Hawkfish

Longfin african conger

False clownwrasse

Queen Coris

Common dolphinfish

Striated surgeonfish

Oriental flying gurnard

Whitetail dascyllus

Three-spot dascyllus

Zebra lionfish

Long-spine porcupinefish

Spot-fin porcupinefish

Bluestripe pipefish

Banded pipefish

Live sharksucker

Snowflake eel

Sling-jaw wrasse

Blacktip grouper

Giant grouper

Malabar grouper

Blue trevally

Bluespotted cornetfish

Long-nose butterflyfish

Tiger shark

Golden Trevally

Poison goby

Actor coral goby

Yellow-speckled cave goby

Green birdmouth wrasse

Goldenstriped soapfish