GOT Fish ID

Revised February, 26, 2016 South Carolina Aquarium Dive Operaons

Arnold Postell Dive Safety Officer / Senior Biologist (843) 579-8536 [email protected]

Ryan Yuen Assistant Dive Safety Officer (843) 579-8503 [email protected]

2 It is the mission of the South Carolina Aquarium (SCA) Dive Team to provide excellence in animal care and husbandry, to actively support both the educational and conservation endeavors of the SCA, and to provide a memorable, positive guest experience to all those who visit our facility.

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4 Almaco Jack Seriola rivoliana • Relaves: member of the family Caragidae

• Descripon: Their dorsal fin and anal fins are elongated and their outer edges have a definite sickle shape. Generally dusky-colored with faint amber or olive stripes down the sides. Their upper bodied and lower fins are dark brown.

• Size: Grows up to 35 in Weight: 132 lb

• Habitat: Small groups on slopes and off of reefs. • Habitat-GOT:

• Diet: • Diet-GOT:

5 AmberJack (Greater) Seriola dumerili

• Relaves: members of the Jack—Carangidae family

• Descripon: Diagonal band runs from lip, across eye to beginning of dorsal fin. Can lighten when in feeding mode. Silvery; fins may have yellow cast. Oen have yellowish stripe along mid body.

• Size: maximum 5½ feet Weight: 40-140 pounds

• Habitat: open-water fish; rarely swim over reefs. Oen in large schools. • Habitat-GOT: All levels

• Diet: • Die-GOT: mackerel, smelt, squid, capelin

6 Banded Rudderfish Seriola zonata • Relaves: Jack and pompanos

• Descripon: Juveniles are banded vercally like piloish, and follow large objects or animals. Large individuals (over 10 inches) have no bands.

• Size: Grows up to 30 inches (75 cm)

• Habitat: Adults are pelagic or epibenthic and confined to coastal waters over the connental shelf. • Habitat-GOT:

• Diet: Feeds on fishes and shrimps. • Diet-GOT:

7 Bar Jack Caranx ruber • Relaves: Member of the Jack and pompanos

• Descripon: dark horizontal bar which runs along the back and down the caudal fin, oen accompanied by an electric blue stripe immediately below it. Usually in schools which may be spawning groups; occasionally solitary.

• Size: Grows up to 50 cm

• Habitat: Common in clear insular areas or in coral reefs off mainland coasts • Habitat-GOT:

• Diet: Feeds on fishes, shrimps and other invertebrates. • Diet-GOT:

8 Barracuda Sphyraena barracuda

• Relaves: Barracuda—Sphyraenidae family

• Descripon: Silver. Long, cylindrical body. Large underslung jaw, pointed teeth. Usually scaered dark blotches. Can darken showing side bands. Dorsal fins widely separated.

• Size: 1½—3 feet. Maximum 6 feet Weight: up to 100 pounds

• Habitat: Dri around reefs and other habitats. Solitary or in small groups. Open and close mouth to assist respiraon. • Habitat-GOT: Upper level of exhibit

• Diet: Other fish • Diet-GOT: mackerel, smelt, squid

9 Belted Sandfish Serranus subligarius • Relaves: Member of the Sea bass family

• Descripon: Stubby sea bass with a pointed snout.

• Size: Grows up to 4 inches (10cm)

• Habitat: Occurs from water's edge to at least 18 m depth, oen in silty water. • Habitat-GOT:

• Diet: • Diet-GOT:

10 Bermuda chub Kyphosus sectatrix • Relaves: Member of the sea chubs

• Descripon: Gray overall, with faint yellow lines on side and yellow line from corner of mouth to preopercle.

• Size: Grows up to 50 cm

• Habitat: Inhabits shallow waters, over turtle grass, sand or rocky boom and around coral reefs • Habitat-GOT:

• Diet: Feeds on plants, mainly on benthic algae, as well as on small crabs and mollusks • Diet-GOT:

11 Black Drum Pogonias cromis

• Relaves: members of the Drum-Sciaenidae family

• Descripon: Dark gray to silvery with large scales; fins blackish; usually have four to five broad dark bars; long chin barbels (whiskers).

• Size: maximum length about 5 feet Weight: up to 110 pounds

• Habitat: Found in depths of 1-60 feet; inhabit sand, mud, rocky booms oen near shore lines, piers, docks • Habitat-GOT: all levels

• Diet: small fish, crustaceans, oysters • Diet-GOT: mackerel, squid, capelin, smelt

12 Black Sea Bass Centropriss striata

• Relaves: member of the Serranidae (sea bass) family

• Descripon: medium sized with blue/black to brown body; centers of scales are white giving appearance of narrow stripes on the sides of the body; female has white area on nape

• Size: up to 2 feet Weight: averages 5 pounds

• Habitat: seen 6-120 feet; rock jees, shallow rocky booms • Habitat-GOT: seen at all levels

• Diet: crabs, shrimp, worms, clams, small fish • Diet-GOT mackerel, smelt, squid

13 Blackp Shark Carcharhinus limbatus • Relaves: Member of the Requiem sharks

• Descripon: Dark grey, ashy blue or dusky bronze on back, belly white or yellowish white; a dark band extending rearward along each side to about over origin of pelvic fin; ps of pelvic fins with a persistent black spot; ps of dorsal fins, pectoral fins, anal, and lower lobe of caudal fin usually black

• Size: 5 feet (1.5m) 122.5 kg largest recorded at 8.5 feet

• Habitat: An inshore and offshore shark found on or adjacent to connental and insular shelves. Oen off river mouths and estuaries, muddy bays, mangrove swamps, lagoons, and coral reef drop-offs • Habitat-GOT:

• Diet: Feeds mainly on pelagic and benthic fishes, also small sharks and rays, cephalopods and crustaceans • Diet-GOT: Salmon, Mackerel

14 Blue AngelFish Holacanthus bermudensis • Relaves: member of the family angelfishes

• Descripon: So parts of dorsal and anal fins and caudal fins have wide yellow margins. Dark spot on forehead lacks electric blue ring. Their bodies are compressed and discus-shaped with blunt rounded heads and a single long connuous dorsal fin.

• Size:

• Habitat: Inhabits rocky or coral reefs • Habitat-GOT:

• Diet: Sponges • Diet-GOT:

15 Blue runner Caranx crysos • Relaves: Member of the jack family

• Descripon: bluish green to olive green dorsally, becoming silvery grey to brassy below. elongated, moderately compressed body.

• Size: 40 cm

• Habitat: Atlanc ocean. Inhabits both inshore and offshore environments. Schooling predatory fish. • Habitat-GOT:

• Diet: Feed on fishes, shrimps, and other invertebrates • Diet-GOT:

16 Cobia Rachyeentron canadum

• Relaves: sole member of the Rachycentridae family

• Descripon: torpedo shaped body, brownish, elongated fish with stocky body, broad later strip, low and long dorsal/anal fin; lower jaw protrudes slightly

• Size: up to 6 feet Weight: 30-100 pounds

• Habitat: seen 0-60 feet; coastal to open water, hovers below anchored ships and floang buoys

• Habitat-GOT: seen at all levels

• Diet: crabs, fish, squid

• Diet-GOT mackerel, smelt, squid 17 Crevalle Jack Caranx hippos

• Relaves: member of the Carangidae family (including pompanos)

• Descripon: bluish green to greenish gold back and silvery or yellow belly; black spot on operculum (gill cover) and base of each pectoral

• Size: up to 3½ feet Weight: averages 50 pounds

• Habitat: open waters 0-130 feet; usually over reefs, swim in schools; may school with Horse- Eye Jacks

• Habitat-GOT: seen at all levels

• Diet: small fish, shrimp, other invertebrates

• Diet-GOT mackerel, smelt, squid, shrimp 18 Gag Grouper Mycteroperca microlepis

• Relaves: member of Grouper/Seabass- Serranidae family

• Descripon: pale to dark gray or olive-gray; dusky blotched (marbled effect) markings give body a marbled appearance; pelvic, anal, and caudal fins are blackish with blue outer edges

• Size: maximum 3 feet Weight: up to 50 pounds (average is 25 pounds)

• Habitat: rocky outcroppings, ledges, reefs; dri near boom; depths of 20-100 feet

• Habitat-GOT: lower poron of tall window

• Diet: small fish, crustaceans

• Diet-GOT: smelt, capelin, mackerel 19 Gray Angelfish Pomacanthus arcuatus • Relaves: Angelfish Pomacanthidae family

• Descripon: Gray body; yellow inner face of pectoral fin. Square-cut tail. Intermediate phase has three pale body bars and one on base of tail. The juvenile is black with three yellow bars on body and one on foretail. Yellow band extends down from forehead and across lips to chin; there is also yellow ring around border of lips. The juvenile has a square-cut tail with white to transparent margin.Uniformly gray to grayish brown with light-edged scales • Size:10-18 inches Weight:

• Habitat: swim about reefs, oen pairs. Juveniles inhabit shallow patch reefs and grassy areas. May engage in cleaning parasites and debris from larger fish. • Habitat GOT: upper level. Oen seen hiding around coral at large window

• Diet: crustaceans • Diet GOT: shrimp, krill, collards

20 Gray Snapper Lutjanus griseus

• Relaves: member of Snapper-Lutjanidae family

• Descripon: color varies from pale to dark gray or reddish brown; somemes nged with olive; dorsal fins oen have dark borders; snout is long and pointed; dorsal profile of head slightly concave; large pair of canine teeth in upper jaw

• Size: maximum length of 2 feet Weight: up to 10 pounds

• Habitat: dri in small schools; inhabit shallow inshore areas, under docks; can be found in depths from 2-60 feet • Habitat-GOT: upper reef of shallow window

• Diet: crustaceans, small fish • Diet-GOT: mackerel, capelin, smelt

21 Gray triggerfish Balistes capriscus • Relaves: Member of the triggerfish family

• Descripon: Three faint irregular broad dark bars on body; a narrow pale transverse band on chin; small light blue spots on upper half of body and median fins, and irregular short lines ventrally

• Size: 44 cm

• Habitat: Inhabits bays, harbors, lagoons, and seaward reefs • Habitat-GOT:

• Diet:Feeds on benthic invertebrates like mollusks and crustaceans • Diet-GOT:

22 Graysby Grouper Cephalopholis cruentata • Relaves: Member of the sea bass family

• Descripon :Opercle with 3 flat spines, middle one the largest and upper spine longer than the lowest. Has 4 contrasng spots, white or black, along body below dorsal fin base

• Size:

• Habitat:Inhabit Thalassia beds and coral reefs. Solitary and secreve, they usually stay near hiding places during the day. • Habitat-GOT:

• Diet: Adults feed mainly on fishes, with preference on Chromis mullineata, juveniles feed on shrimps. • Diet-GOT:

23 Green Moray Eel Gymnothorax funebris

• Relaves: member of Moray-Muraenidae family

• Descripon: Skin is thick, smooth, scaleless; wide mouth; jaw is equipped with sharp teeth; color uniform green to brown • Size: up to approximately 8 feet Weight:

• Habitat: seen 10-100 feet; found in all tropical and subtropical seas from 10-100 feet; hides among coral reefs, rocks, crevices with head oen extended from openings • Habitat-GOT: may swim freely; generally seen at boom of tall window around coral as well as shallow window

• Diet: crustaceans, octopus, small fish • Diet-GOT mackerel, squid

24 Horse-Eye Jack Caranx latus

• Relave: member of Jack-Carangidae family

• Descripon: yellow tail fins; pectoral fin clear; silvery; usually dark ps on dorsal and upper tail fin; large head; blunt snout

• Size: maximum 2½ feet Weight: up to 24 pounds

• Habitat: 0-60 feet; open water over reefs; schools.

• Habitat-GOT: seen at every level

• Diet: shrimp and other invertebrates

• Diet-GOT: krill, shrimp mackerel, smelt, capelin 25 Loggerhead Sea Turtle Carea carea

• Relaves: Member of the Cheloniidae family

• Descripon: reddish brown coloraon; large massive head; usually 5 costal (along the center of the carapace) plates with the first one touching the nuchal (along the nape of neck)

• Size: up to 4 feet Weight: up to 350 pounds

• Habitat-GOT: all levels

• Diet: crustaceans, mollusks, jellyfish, sea grasses

• Diet-GOT mackerel, collards, gel food

26 Margate Haemulon album

• Relaves: Member of the Grunt family

• Descripon: Usual color phase dull silvery, the fins largely gray; the dorsal and caudal fins of subadults and the back above a line from dorsal base to lower margin of caudal fin are oen blackish

• Size:

• Habitat: Inhabits seagrass beds, sand flats, coral reefs, and wrecks

• Habitat-GOT:

• Diet: Benthic invertebrates

• Diet-GOT:

27 Nurse Shark Ginglymostoma cirratum

• Relaves: member of the Carpet Shark- Rhincodondae family

• Descripon: two barbells on upper lip; two dorsal fins of nearly equal size set far back; small mouth; color varies from gray to yellow-brown; short snout; movement is sluggish. Behind each eye is a spiracle, an organ that takes in water to be used for breathing while resng on the boom. Teeth are serrated and used for crushing shellfish. Boom dweller.

• Size: up to 14 feet Weight:

• Habitat: found in waters 12-100 feet; oen seen lying on sand, under ledges and overhangs • Habitat-GOT: lower level- becomes acve and moves throughout during feeding me

• Diet: sea urchins, crustaceans, small fish • Diet-GOT: mackerel, squid, smelt 28 Ocean triggerfish Canthidermis sufflamen

• Relaves: Member of the genus triggerfishes

• Descripon: So dorsal and anal fins very elevated anteriorly, the longest rays nearly as long as head, brownish gray with a large dark brown spot at base of pectoral fins

• Size: 25.6 inches

• Habitat:Common near drop-offs of seaward reefs, oen associated with Sargassum. • Habitat-GOT:

• Diet: Large zooplankton • Diet-GOT: Shrimp, krill

29 Permit Trachinotus falcatus

• Relaves: member of Jack-Carangidae family

• Descripon: silver; oen have shades of iridescent blue on head and back; belly oen yellowish; p of dorsal fin dark; occasionally dark circular area behind base of pectoral fin

• Size: maximum under 4 feet Weight: 25-50 pounds

• Habitat: up to 100 feet; swim over reefs to feed, generally solitary • Habitat-GOT: seen at every level

• Diet: crustaceans, urchins • Diet-GOT: smelt, mackerel, capelin, krill

30 Pompano (Florida) Trachinotus carolinus

• Relaves: member of the Jack – Carangidae family

• Descripon: black-bluish gray or bluish-green; sides silvery; belly silvery; blunt snout; 1st dorsal fin has 6 short spines

• Size: up to 1½ feet Weight: 3-8 pounds

• Habitat: shallow water along sandy beaches

• Habitat-GOT: all levels

• Diet: mollusks, crustaceans

• Diet-GOT: smelt, krill, gel food, shrimp 31 Porcupinefish Diodon hystrix

• Relaves: Diodondae family (spiny puffers)

• Descripon: large bodied fish; olive to brown back with shading to white on belly; black spots on fins and body; large eyes; cheeks have two brown vercal bars

• Size: up to 3 feet Weight:

• Habitat: seen from 10-60 feet; cave openings and reef booms

• Habitat-GOT: all levels

• Diet: crustaceans, mollusks, shrimp

• Diet-GOT shrimp, smelt, capelin

32 Porkfish Anisotremus virginicus

• Relave: member of the Grunt-Haemulidae family

• Descripon: alternang silvery blue and yellow stripes; two bold black diagonal bands on head; blunt snout; small mouth

• Size: maximum 14 inches Weight:

• Habitat: 10-60 feet; murky coastal waters and muddy bays; aracted to arficial reefs

• Habitat-GOT: rocky area of tall window

• Diet: invertebrates

• Diet-GOT: shrimp, krill, collards 33 Queen triggerfish Balistes vetula

• Relaves: member of the Balisdae family (leatherjacks)

• Descripon: blue to gold body; yellow chin and chest; blue ring around the caudal peduncle; blue lips; gold/blue lines radiang from the eyes; two blue stripes from the pectoral fins to the snout

• Size: up to 2 feet Weight:

• Habitat: seen from 10-50 feet; reef tops; coral rubble; grass beds • Habitat-GOT: mostly seen around coral of shallow or large window

• Diet: sea urchins, barnacles, mussels, conch, starfish, octopus, coral • Diet-GOT: smelt, krill, gel food, shrimp

34 Rainbow runner Elagas bipinnulata • Relaves: Member of the Jack family-Carangidae

• Descripon:Color dark olive green or blue above, white below; 2 narrow light blue bands on sides with a yellowish band between them; fins olive or yellowish.

• Size: common length 90 cm weight: 40 kg

• Habitat: Found in oceanic and coastal waters, generally near the surface over reefs or somemes far from the coast • Habitat-GOT: all levels

• Diet: Feed on invertebrates (larger crustaceans of the zooplankton) and small fishes • Diet-GOT: smelt, shrimp, squid, mackerel

35 Red Drum Sciaenops ocellatus

• Relaves: member of the Sciaenidae (drum) family

• Descripon: long, bronze body; dark spot on caudalpeduncle; no barbels on chin

• Size: up to 5 feet Weight: up to 92 pounds

• Habitat: shallow water along edges of bays, dal creeks, oyster reefs

• Habitat-GOT: all levels

• Diet: mollusks, crustaceans, small fish

• Diet-GOT: smelt, shrimp, squid, mackerel, capelin, 36 Red Grouper Epinephelus morio

• Relaves: member of Grouper/Seabass Serranidae family

• Descripon: variable earthtones, usually reddish brown with small, scaered whish blotches; large mouth

• Size: maximum 3 feet Weight: up to 50 pounds

• Habitat: 6-400 feet; inhabits reefs and margins of sea grass beds; rest on boom

• Habitat-GOT: lower poron of tall window and cave area

• Diet: small fish, squid, crustaceans

• Diet-GOT: mackerel, capelin, squid 37 Sandbar Shark Carcharhinus plumbeus

• Relaves: member of the Carcharhinidae family (includes bull, black p, ger and reef sharks)

• Descripon: drab gray to brown in color, tall first dorsal fin which is located far forward on the body; large pectoral fins serrated upper teeth; short snout • Size: up to 8 feet Weight: average male-100-200 pounds—female 150 pounds

• Habitat: muddy coastal areas, bays and estuaries; typically found in water shallower than 60 feet • Habitat-GOT: all levels

• Diet: skates, rays, squid, crustaceans, smaller fish • Diet-GOT: salmon, mackerel, tuna

38 Sand Tiger Shark Carcharias taurus

• Relaves: member of the Odontaspididae family

• Descripon: 5 pairs of gill slits, an anal fin; a first dorsal fin placed far back on the trunk with a 2nd dorsal about equal in size; pectoral fin behind 5th gill opening; coloring is light gray-brown above, becoming paler on belly; darker spots behind pectoral fins on trunk and fins; long tricuspid teeth • Size: up to 10 feet Weight: up to 640 pounds

• Habitat: on or near boom in shallow inshore waters • Habitat-GOT: can be seen at every level throughout the day

• Diet: other fish • Diet-GOT: tuna, mackerel 39 Scamp Mycteroperca phenax

• Relaves: Grouper/Seabas-Serranidae family

• Descripon: Light tan to brown. Can pale or darken dramacally. Tend to form broken stripes and rectangular blotches, giving a marbled appearance.

• Size: 1—1½ feet, maximum 2 feet Weight: up to 28 pounds

• Habitat: dri above reefs; oen in openings of recesses in reefs.

• Habitat-GOT: lower level of exhibit

• Diet: smaller fish, crustaceans, squid

• Diet-GOT: smelt, mackerel, shrimp, squid 40 Sergeant major Abudefduf saxalis • Relaves: Member of the Linnaeus family

• Descripon: Juveniles are common in de pools while adults found over shallow reef tops. Marine, reef-associated, non-migratory.

• Size: Common length 15 cm Weight:

• Habitat: Atlanc ocean, caribbean reefs.

• Habitat-GOT: can be seen at every level throughout the day

• Diet: Algae, small crustaceans and fish

• Diet-GOT: shrimp, mackerel, smelt, capelin, krill

41 Sheepshead Archosargus probatocehalus

• Relaves: member of the porgy-aridae family

• Descripon: five to six dark, diagonal body bars. Coloring is whish to yellowish silver; back may be olive to brown

• Size: up to 3 feet Weight: 2-12 pounds

• Habitat: found in depths from 3-40 feet; rocky areas, shipwrecks, dock pilings

• Habitat-GOT: can be seen at every level throughout the day

• Diet: crabs, mollusks

• Diet-GOT: shrimp, mackerel, smelt, capelin, krill 42 Snook Centropomus undecimalis

• Relaves: member of Centropomidae family

• Descripon: obvious black lateral line; silvery olive; elongate body; pointed snout; lower jaw projects well beyond the upper

• Size: up to 4½ feet Weight: up to 53 pounds

• Habitat: found in depths of 3-35 feet; coastal waters, lagoons, estuaries

• Habitat-Got: primarily lower level

• Diet: crustaceans, small fish

• Diet-GOT: mackerel, gel food, smelt, capelin 43 Spadefish Chaetodipterus faber

• Relaves: Spadefish—Ephippidae

• Descripon: Silver; may turn gray. Bars can pale dramacally.

• Size: 1—1½ feet, maximum 3 feet Weight:

• Habitat: usually swim in small schools in open water, although occasionally in huge schools.

• Habitat GOT: all levels

• Diet: crustaceans

• Diet-GOT: squid, mackerel, smelt, capelin

44 Spoail Pinfish Diplodus holbrookii • Relaves: Member of the Sparidae family

• Descripon: Spoail pinfish are almost totally gray in color, with a large, black spot on the distal end of the caudal peduncle. School in small numbers, but generally mix with many other species.

• Size: Common length 25.0 cm

• Habitat: Exclusive to the western Atlanc ocean. Common to shallow waters, near coasts, such as bays and harbors. • Habitat-GOT: mostly seen around coral of large window

• Diet: Small invertebrates • Diet-GOT: : smelt, krill, gel food, shrimp

45 Squirrelfish Holocentrus adscensionis

• Relaves: member of the Holocentridae family

• Descripon: reddish with silvery stripes; first dorsal fin yellow; large eyes

• Size: up to 16 inches

• Habitat: seen from 4-40 feet; reefs and rocky areas

• Habitat-GOT: mostly seen around coral of large window; very shy

• Diet: crabs, shrimp, worms, snails

• Diet-GOT: smelt, krill, gel food, shrimp

46 Tarpon Megalops atlancus

• Relaves: Tarpon—Elopidae

• Descripon: Shiny, large ‘stainless steel’ scales; upturned mouth; Stout body.

• Size: 2—4 feet, maximum 8 feet Weight: average 300 pounds

• Habitat: extend 90 foot depths dri in canyons and secluded areas. Normally school during the day.

• Habitat-GOT: generally stay near lower poron of exhibit

• Diet: crustaceans

• Diet-GOT: shrimp, smelt, mackerel 47 Tomtate Haemulon aurolineatum

• Relaves: Grunt—Haemulidae

• Descripon: Silvery, white to tan body; prominent yellow to bronze stripe runs from snout through eye to base of tail; another thinner stripe on back; black spot on base of tail (not always present.)

• Size: 5—8 inches, maximum 10 inches Weight:

• Habitat: inhabit reefs, sea grass beds and sand flats. • Habitat-GOT: lower poron of tall window, oen hides in cave area

• Diet: • Diet-GOT: smelt, capelin, krill

48 Tripletail Lobotes surinamensis

• Relaves: Tripletail—Lobodae

• Descripon: Lightly moled; vary from cream to yellow-brown, greenish brown, gray and black.

• Size: 1½—2½ feet, maximum 3½ feet Weight:

• Habitat: sluggish. Prefer shaded areas under floats of sargassum, docks, buoys and anchored lines.

• Habitat-GOT: upper level

• Diet: crustaceans, small fish

• Diet-GOT: smelt, squid, mackerel, capelin

49 Vermillion Snapper Rhomboplites aurorubens

• Relaves: member of Snapper-Lutjanidae family

• Descripon: light red to salmon upper head, body, dorsal and tail fins; short, diagonal rows of spots on upper half of body; protruding lower jaw; shallow forked tail

• Size: maximum 2½ feet Weight: averages 6 pounds

• Habitat: 90-200 feet; inhabits deep reefs; banks and rocky outcroppings • Habitat-GOT: all levels

• Diet: crustaceans, mollusks • Diet-GOT: smelt, mackerel, capelin, shrimp, squid

50 White Grunt Haemulon plumieri

• Relaves: member of Grunt-Haemulidae family

• Descripon: head stripes yellow and bluish silver; large scales on body form checkered paern of yellow and bluish silver; pearly iridescence; long snout; pointed mouth

• Size: maximum 18 inches Weight: averages 2 pounds

• Habitat: 12-40 feet; dri in small schools on reef, near drop-offs; grass beds

• Habitat-GOT: rocky area of tall window

• Diet-GOT: smelt; mackerel; shrimp, squid, capelin

51 Yellowtail Snapper Ocyurus chrysurus

• Relaves: member of Snapper-Lutjanidae family

• Descripon: brilliant yellow mid-body stripe and tail; silvery to white, oen nged with blue; my have yellow spots on upper body; tail deeply forked; head/mouth relavely small; no canine teeth

• Size: maximum 2½ feet Weight: averages 3-7 pounds

• Habitat: 10-60 feet; swim alone or in loose schools above reefs • Habitat-GOT: seen at all levels

• Diet: • Diet-GOT:

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