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Order: Perciformes
Family: Serranidae
Large mouth, single dorsal fin of both rays and spines. Caudal fin is truncate or rounded, anal fin has 3 spines. Predators and some simultaneous hermaphrodites |
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Order: Perciformes
Family: Percidae
Small benthic fishes with elongate bodies and prominant eyes. Spiny and rayed dorsal fins are serparate. Anal fin has 2 spines. |
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Order: Perciformes
Family: Apogonidae
Small moderately compressed fishes with large mouths and eyes. 2 Separate dorsal fins, first with 6-8 spines, second with 1. Planktivores |
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Order: Perciformes
Family: Echenedae
Easily distinguished by presence of suction disk derived from dorsal fin. Attach with it and feed on scraps |
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Order: Perciformes
Family: Carangidae
Silvery streamlined fishes vary in form from fusiform to compressed. Forked caudal fin with narrow caudal peduncle. Detached spines before the anal fin. |
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Order: Perciformes
Family: Sciaenidae
Elongate fishes with long dorsal fins, divided by a notch into a spiny section and 2 anal fin spines. Can produce sounds through swimbladder muscles |
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Order: Perciformes
Family: Chaetodontidae
High compressed fishes with stout anal dorsal and pelvic spines. Small mouth and warm reef fish |
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Order: Perciformes
Family: Kyphosidae
Small mouth fishes with a blunt head, oval body and continuous dorsal fin |
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Order: Perciformes
Family: Cichlidae
Freshwater fishes and lateral line is broken |
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Order: Perciformes
Family: Embiotocidae
Compressed fishes with small mouths and continuous dorsal fin with 3 spines. Internal fertilization |
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Order: Perciformes
Family: Pomacentridae
Small fishes with ovoid, compressed bodies small mouths and forked tail. Single nostril and shortened lateral line |
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Order: Perciformes
Family: Labridae
Elongate fishes with long dorsal fins dominated by rays. Canine teeth protrude from their jaws. Protogynous |
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Order: Perciformes
Family: Scaridae
Teeth of the scarids fused to form a beak large scales |
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Order: Perciformes
Family: Stichaeidae
Long slender compressed fishes with long dorsal and anal fins. Dorsal and anal fins sometimes joined to caudal fin. |
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Order: Perciformes
Family: Pholidae
Long eel-like fishes with a long spiny dorsal fin. No lateral line |
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Order: Perciformes
Family: Clinidae
Elongate fishes with a long dorsal fin extending from the head to caudal fin. Taller in front and in rear |
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Order: Perciformes
Family: Blennidae
Small scaleless fishes with blunt heads. Ventrally located mouthes. |
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Order: Perciformes
Family: Gobiesocidae
Large depressed head tapering to a thin tail. All species lack fin spines. Continuous dorsal fin. Ventral suction organ |
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Order: Perciformes
Family: Gobidae
Separate spiny and soft dorsal rays. Pelvic fins are completely or partially fused to form a ventral sucker. |
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Order: Perciformes
Family: Scombridae
Streamlined, cigar shaped fishes with narrow caudal peduncle with 5-10 isolated finlets |
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Order: Pleuronectiformes
Family: Paralichthyidae
Eyes and pigment are on the left side of the body. Single lateral line without a dorsal branch |
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Order: Pleuronectiformes
Family: Cynoglossidae
Left eyes and teardrop shaped flounders with a pointed caudal fin. Lack pectoral and the pelvic fins on one side. |
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Order: Tetradontiformes
Family: Balistidae
Deep-bodied compressed fishes. Spiny dorsal followed by a long rayed dorsal which is opposite the anal fin. Thick leathery skin |
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Order: Tetradontiformes
Family: Tetratontidae
Torpedo shaped fishes have small median fins which are located posteriorly. Each jaw has beaklike body plate |
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