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• Disk and oval-shaped fishes: butterflyfishes, angelfishes, and surgeonfishes 2. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
• Other important components of the fringing reef ecosystem include algae (brown, red and green), marine invertebrates (shrimp, lobster, crabs and sea urchins) and fishes (parrotfish, wrasses, damselfish, surgeonfish, goatfish, jacks and sharks). Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary
• Damselfish make up almost half, with angelfish, surgeonfish, wrasses, gobies, and butterfly fish accounting for another 25 to 30 percent.
• Most of what you see here are coral fish like various wrasses, squirrelfish, Moorish Idols, parrotfish, angelfish, surgeonfish and butterflyfish.
• The loss of algae-eating fish, such as parrotfish and surgeonfish, is worrying, says Paddack, because they help the reefs thrive by clearing away algae. Resilience Science
• The upper part is the territory of the surgeonfish which savagely protects it by attacking divers when they approach.
• Surgeonfishes and parrotfishes remove coral polyps to get the algae or invertebrates that have bored into the coral skeleton. Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean
• At the same site we saw a pair of purple flame gobies, a fantastic blue-ribbon eel, clown triggerfish and a beautifully striped surgeonfish.
• I could identify lion fish, clown fish and orangestripe surgeonfish.
• Damselfish make up almost half, with angelfish, surgeonfish, wrasses, gobies, and butterfly fish accounting for another 25 to 30 percent.