8 photos - 5 species
Introduce
These fish are rather inconspicuous.
They all have a fairly pale sandy-grey base colour, which they can all change to a spotted pattern in seconds.
Gnathodentex aureolineatus
Goldspot seabream or Striped large-eye bream
Maximum length: 30 cm
Depth: 2 - 20 m
Travelling in large groups.
Embudu Maldives
Lethrinus erythracanthus
Orange-spotted emperor, Orangefin emperor
or Yellow-spotted emperor
Maximum length: 50 cm
Depth: 10 - 120 m
A normally solitary reef species.
Embudu Maldives
Lethrinus mahsena
Sky emperor, Mahsena emperor or Cutthroat emperor
Maximum length: 65 cm
Depth: 3 - 100 m
Bluish head with black cross bands.
Travels alone in lagoons, bays, outer reefs over sand or sea grass.
Eats echinoderms, crustaceans and fish.
Vigilant.
Hurghada Egypt
Lethrinus nebulosus
Spangled emperor, Green snapper, Morwong, North-west snapper,
Sand bream, Sand snapper, Sixteen-pounder, Sharie, Sheri
or Yellow sweetlip
Maximum length: 80 cm
Depth: 2 - 50 m
Often in small groups over coral reefs, seagrass beds, rubble and sandy areas.
Hurghada Egypt
Monotaxis grandoculis
Humpnose big-eye, Bigeye barenose, Bigeye emperor, Grand-eyed porgy fish, Humpnose sea-bream, Large-eye bream, Mu,
or Roundtooth large-eye bream
Maximum length: 60 cm
Depth: 5 - 50 m
Often over sand patches.
While juveniles have brown and white stripes, adults are silver in colour.
Hurghada Egypt