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. 4th 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. 2019. SharkCam Fishes. A Guide to Nekton at Frying Pan Tower. 4th edition. Los Angeles: Explore.org Ocean Frontiers. 194 pp. Available online http://explore.org/live-cams/player/shark-cam. Guide version 4.0. 5 January 2019. 2 Table of Contents Identification Images Species Profiles Additional Information Index TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD AND INTRODUCTION.................................................................................. 9 IDENTIFICATION IMAGES .......................................................................................... 12 Sharks and Rays ................................................................................................................................... 12 Table: Relative frequency of occurrence and relative size ..................................................................... 13 Illustration: SharkCam Sharks ................................................................................................................. 13 Silvery Fishes ....................................................................................................................................... 14 Colorful Ovals ...................................................................................................................................... 17 Swim with Pectoral Fins/Obvious Scales ............................................................................................ 20 Heavy Bodies/Large Lips ..................................................................................................................... 23 Sloping Heads and Tapered Bodies ..................................................................................................... 25 Oddly-shaped Swimmers .................................................................................................................... 28 Bottom Fishes ..................................................................................................................................... 30 Not Fishes ............................................................................................................................................ 32 SPECIES PROFILES ................................................................................................... 34 SHARKS AND RAYS ................................................................................................. 35 Bull Shark ................................................................................................................................................ 36 Lemon Shark ........................................................................................................................................... 37 Nurse Shark ............................................................................................................................................. 38 Sand Tiger Shark ...................................................................................................................................... 39 Sandbar Shark ......................................................................................................................................... 40 Tiger Shark .............................................................................................................................................. 41 Positive identification of SharkCam shark species ............................................................................. 42 Great Hammerhead ................................................................................................................................ 43 Giant Manta ............................................................................................................................................ 44 Southern Stingray ................................................................................................................................... 45 SILVERY FISHES ...................................................................................................... 46 African Pompano .................................................................................................................................... 47 Crevalle Jack ............................................................................................................................................ 48 Permit ...................................................................................................................................................... 49 Almaco Jack ............................................................................................................................................. 50 3 Table of Contents Identification Images Species Profiles Additional Information Index SharkCam Fishes Greater Amberjack .................................................................................................................................. 51 Banded Rudderfish .................................................................................................................................. 52 Horse-eye Jack ........................................................................................................................................ 53 Blue Runner ............................................................................................................................................. 54 Rainbow Runner ..................................................................................................................................... 55 Yellow Jack .............................................................................................................................................. 56 Bar Jack ................................................................................................................................................... 57 Bigeye Scad ............................................................................................................................................. 58 Round Scad ............................................................................................................................................. 59 Scaled Herring ......................................................................................................................................... 60 Northern Sennet ..................................................................................................................................... 61 Bluefish ................................................................................................................................................... 62 Tarpon ..................................................................................................................................................... 63 Great Barracuda ...................................................................................................................................... 64 King Mackerel ......................................................................................................................................... 65 Atlantic Bonito ........................................................................................................................................ 66 Little Tunny ............................................................................................................................................. 67 Atlantic Spadefish ................................................................................................................................... 68 Bermuda Chub ........................................................................................................................................ 69 COLORFUL OVALS .................................................................................................. 70 Blue Angelfish ......................................................................................................................................... 71 Queen Angelfish ...................................................................................................................................... 72 Rock Beauty ............................................................................................................................................ 73 French Angelfish ..................................................................................................................................... 74 Banded Butterflyfish ............................................................................................................................... 75 Spotfin Butterflyfish ................................................................................................................................ 76 Blue Chromis ..........................................................................................................................................