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.
Photo 1 Johnny: 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.
Photo 1 Johnny: 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.
Photos 1- 2 Johnny: 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.
Photo 1 Johnny: 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.
Photo 1 Astrid: Hurghada Egypt
Photos 2 - 3 Johnny: Hurghada Egypt