ID Central
Welcome to the REEF ID Central Forum!
Posted October 26th, 2007 by Joe.CavanaughAnyone can browse our forums but you must be a REEF member and logged in to REEF.org to post. You will be able to post up to 3 images for a single posting. Our Fish and Invertebrate Identification Forum should be your first stop on the way to answering “what the heck is that critter I saw?” Some things to consider when posting a picture to the forum are: clarity and fo
Bamboo Shark images needed
Posted October 6th, 2008 by LadHI All!
REEF is working with NOAA and the USGS on a field guide to non-native species in Florida and we are having trouble finding good images for the brownbanded bambooshark (Chiloscyllium punctatutum). These sharks are native to the Indo-Asian Pacific, but have been sighted in SE Florida. We are looking for both adult and juvenile images as these lifestages look quite different.
Fish ID from the Bahamas
Posted September 28th, 2008 by roger roger
Can anyone help me to ID this fish from the Bahamas? I looked through Paul Humann Reef Fish book with no luck. Any help would be appreciated.
Snake Eel? Caribbean - St. Maarten snorkeling
Posted September 13th, 2008 by scubashell
I saw this while snorkeling off of a beach in St. Maarten in the Caribbean. I have learned that sea snakes do not exist in the Caribbean, so is this a snake eel?
RE: Plectohinchus spp. Crescent or Giant Sweet Lip Grunt
Posted August 29th, 2008 by Josh Wittmer
Looks like the fish posted by fish_id, doesn't it?
Plectohinchus spp. Crescent or Giant Sweet Lip Grunt
Posted August 22nd, 2008 by fish_id
Unidentified Seweetlip Grunt sighted at Blue Heron Bridge in Palm Beach Florida at 20 fsw two weeks ago. My guess is it is either a Giant Sweet Lip Grunt (P. albovittatus) or the Crescent Sweetlip (P. cinctus). Any Opinions?
JV rock fish
Posted August 18th, 2008 by canaryrockfish
found these little fishes hanging out in the kelp fosrest at San Miguel island in the shallows 35ish Feet in the day time.
Any idea what they are?
Rhoda
Carl's yellow Rockfish
Posted August 16th, 2008 by canaryrockfish
Carl has a good angle of the fish. Here is its color.
What Kind of Rockfish?
Posted August 11th, 2008 by carl
Greetings!
Several divers spotted this unusual rockfish near Santa Rosa in the California Channel Islands, on the Aug 2008 REEF fish-counting trip. The fish was at Groovy Wall (a.k.a. East End Pinnacles), just southeast of the island. We spotted it around 9 am on the morning of 10 Aug.
Neptune Memorial Reef
Posted July 22nd, 2008 by njmorrell
I took this photo a couple of weeks ago on the Neptune Memorial reef just off Miami. It is some kind of trigger fish or file fish. ID help needed.
Nick