Florent's Guide To The

Tropical Reefs

Disk & Large Oval

• Angelfishes
• Surgeonfishes

• Zanclidae
• Butterflyfishes

Silvery fishes

• Jacks
• Porgies
• Mojarras
• Chubs
• Spadefishes
• Tarpons
• Barracudas
• Bonnetmouths
• Needlefishes

Small Oval Fishes

• Damselfishes
• Hamlets

Groupers/Seabasses

• Groupers
• Seabasses
• Basslets
• Anthias
• Soapfishes

Grunts and Snappers

• Grunts
• Snappers
• Emperors

Parrotfishes/Wrasses

• Parrotfishes

• Wrasses
• Hogfish
• Razorfishes

Red Fishes

• Squirrelfishes
• Bigeyes
• Cardinalfishes

Bottom-Dwellers

• Gobies

• Blennies
• Toadfishes
• Seahorses
• Jawfishes
• Flounders

• Hawkfishes
• Lizardfishes
• Lionfishes
• Scorpionfishes

Odd-Shaped Swimmers

• Triggerfishes
• Filefishes

• Boxfishes
• Porcupinefishes
• Pufferfishes

• Drums
• Goatfishes
• Trumpetfishes
• Cornetfishes
• Sweepers
• Remoras
• Tilefishes

Eels

• Moray Eels
• Snake Eels
• Conger Eels

Sharks and Rays

• Rays
• Sharks

Crustaceans

• Lobsters
• Shrimps
• Mantis Shrimps
• Isopods
• Barnacles

• True Crabs
• Hermit Crabs

Worms

• Flatworms
• Fireworms
• Tube Worms
• Feather Duster Worms
• Spaghetti Worms

Mollusks

• Sea Slugs
• Nudibranchs
• Squid
• Octopuses

• Bivalves
• Chitons

Cnidarians

• Sea Anemones
• Tube-Dwelling Anemones
• Corallimorphs
• Hydroid
• Jellyfishes
• Zoanthids

Echinoderms

• Feather Stars
• Sea Stars
• Basket Stars
• Brittle Stars

• Sea Urchins
• Sea Cucumbers

Tunicates

• Tunicates
• Pelagic Tunicates

Sponges and Bryozoans

• Sponges
• Bryozoans

Corals

• Hydrocorals
• Gorgonians
• Black Corals

• Stony Corals

Algae

• Brown Algae
• Green Algae
• Red Algae

Dolphins And Turtles

• Turtles
• Dolphins