Sharkcam Fishes a Guide to Nekton at Frying Pan Tower by Erin J
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SharkCam Fishes A Guide to Nekton at Frying Pan Tower By Erin J. Burge, Christopher E. O’Brien, and jon-newbie 1 Table of Contents Identification Images Species Profiles Additional Information Index Trevor Mendelow, designer of SharkCam, on August 31, 2014, the day of the original SharkCam installation SharkCam Fishes. A Guide to Nekton at Frying Pan Tower. 3rd edition by Erin J. Burge, Christopher E. O’Brien, and jon-newbie is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. For questions related to this guide or its usage contact Erin Burge. The suggested citation for this guide is: Burge EJ, CE O’Brien and jon-newbie. 2018. SharkCam Fishes. A Guide to Nekton at Frying Pan Tower. 3rd edition. Los Angeles: Explore.org Ocean Frontiers. 169 pp. Available online http://explore.org/live-cams/player/shark-cam. Guide version 3.0. 26 January 2018. 2 Table of Contents Identification Images Species Profiles Additional Information Index TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD AND INTRODUCTION.................................................................................. 8 IDENTIFICATION IMAGES .......................................................................................... 11 Sharks and Rays ................................................................................................................................... 11 Table: Relative frequency of occurrence and relative size ..................................................................... 11 Silvery Fishes ....................................................................................................................................... 12 Colorful Ovals ...................................................................................................................................... 15 Heavy Bodies/Large Lips ..................................................................................................................... 21 Sloping Heads and Tapered Bodies ..................................................................................................... 23 Oddly-shaped Swimmers .................................................................................................................... 25 Bottom Fishes ..................................................................................................................................... 27 Not Fishes ............................................................................................................................................ 29 SPECIES PROFILES ................................................................................................... 31 SHARKS AND RAYS ................................................................................................. 32 Nurse Shark ............................................................................................................................................. 33 Sand Tiger Shark ...................................................................................................................................... 34 Sandbar Shark ......................................................................................................................................... 35 Giant Manta ............................................................................................................................................ 36 Southern Stingray ................................................................................................................................... 37 SILVERY FISHES ...................................................................................................... 38 African Pompano .................................................................................................................................... 39 Crevalle Jack ............................................................................................................................................ 40 Permit ...................................................................................................................................................... 41 Almaco Jack ............................................................................................................................................. 42 Greater Amberjack .................................................................................................................................. 43 Banded Rudderfish .................................................................................................................................. 44 Horse-eye Jack ........................................................................................................................................ 45 Blue Runner ............................................................................................................................................. 46 Rainbow Runner ..................................................................................................................................... 47 Yellow Jack .............................................................................................................................................. 48 Bar Jack ................................................................................................................................................... 49 3 Table of Contents Identification Images Species Profiles Additional Information Index SharkCam Fishes Bigeye Scad ............................................................................................................................................. 50 Round Scad ............................................................................................................................................. 51 Scaled Herring ......................................................................................................................................... 52 Great Barracuda ...................................................................................................................................... 53 King Mackerel ......................................................................................................................................... 54 Atlantic Bonito ........................................................................................................................................ 55 Little Tunny ............................................................................................................................................. 56 Atlantic Spadefish ................................................................................................................................... 57 Bermuda Chub ........................................................................................................................................ 58 COLORFUL OVALS .................................................................................................. 59 Blue Angelfish ......................................................................................................................................... 60 Queen Angelfish ...................................................................................................................................... 61 French Angelfish ..................................................................................................................................... 62 Spotfin Butterflyfish ................................................................................................................................ 63 Blue Chromis ........................................................................................................................................... 64 Purple Reeffish ........................................................................................................................................ 65 Bicolor Damselfish .................................................................................................................................. 66 Cocoa Damselfish .................................................................................................................................... 67 Sergeant Major ....................................................................................................................................... 68 Blue Tang (juvenile) ................................................................................................................................ 69 Doctorfish ................................................................................................................................................ 70 Surgeonfishes (Blue Tang (adult), Doctorfish, Ocean Surgeon) .............................................................. 71 SWIM WITH PECTORAL FINS/OBVIOUS SCALES .............................................................. 72 Bluehead ................................................................................................................................................. 73 Clown Wrasse.......................................................................................................................................... 74 Puddingwife ............................................................................................................................................ 75 Slippery Dick ...........................................................................................................................................