Jump to main content

Home
Reef Environmental Education Foundation
Conserving Oceans Through Citizen Science, Education and Research

User menu

  • Log In
  • 0 items

Secondary navigation

  • Join (It's Free!)
  • Donate
  • Shop
  • Submit Data

Main menu

  • Programs
    • Volunteer Fish Survey Project
      • About
      • Submit Data Online
      • Download Offline Data Entry Program
      • Explore Database - Create Reports
      • Top Stats
      • Geographic Zone Codes & Maps
      • Publications - See How REEF Data Have Been Used
      • Experience Levels
      • Golden Hamlet Club
      • Great Annual Fish Count
      • Monitoring Projects
      • Interpreting REEF Data
    • Invasive Species Program
      • About
      • Education and Outreach
        • Collecting & Handling Workshops
        • Lionfish Tutorials and Videos
        • Resources
      • Lionfish Derbies
        • 2019 Derby Series
        • Past Derby Results
        • Host a Sanctioned Derby
        • Sponsor a Derby
        • Media Coverage
      • Report an Exotic/ Non-Native Sighting
      • Invasive Lionfish Program on Facebook
      • Market Development
        • Lionfish Jewelry
        • Eating Lionfish
    • Grouper Moon Project
      • About
      • Publications
      • Collaborators and Funders
      • Spawning Videos
    • Explorers Education Program
      • About
      • Oceans Explorer Camp
      • Field Methodology Course
      • Classroom Explorer Programs
    • Marine Conservation Internship
      • About
      • Internship Description
      • Apply Now
      • Interns Present and Past
      • Funding Opportunities
      • Ten Reasons to be a REEF Intern
    • Conservation Partners
      • About
      • Directory
      • Registration
  • REEF Trips
    • Schedule
      • Upcoming Field Survey Trips
      • 2019 Trips
      • 2020 Trips
      • 2021 Trips Preview
      • Schedule Archive
    • Field Survey Trips
      • About and FAQs
      • Policies
      • Trip Leader Bios
  • Learning Resources
    • Fishinars
      • About
      • Upcoming Fishinars
      • Archive Directory
      • Full Listing - past and upcoming
    • Other Resources
      • Quizzes of Common Fish and Invertebrates
      • Species Galleries
      • Quizlet Study Decks
  • News
    • Newsletters
      • Monthly E-news -- "Making It Count"
    • Press
      • Press Releases
      • REEF in the News
  • Membership and Giving
    • REEF Membership
      • Join - It's Free
      • Why Become a Member
      • Volunteers of the Year
    • Support REEF
      • Donate Now
      • Monthly Giving REEF Guardians
      • Memorial Donations
      • Honorary Donation
      • Employer Matching Companies
      • Donor Recognition Levels
        • The Giving REEF
    • Other Ways to Give
      • Include REEF in Your Will
      • Gifts of Stock
      • Planned Giving
        • REEF Legacy Society
      • Shop to Support
      • Raise Money for REEF
      • Symbolic Animal Adoption
    • Business Support
      • Corporate Partners
      • Cause Marketing
      • Sponsorship Opportunities
      • Conservation Partners
  • About
    • About, Mission, Vision
      • Contact Us
      • What is REEF?
      • Mission and Vision
      • FAQs
      • Annual Reports
    • Staff and Boards
      • Staff Directory
      • Staff Bios
      • Boards
    • REEF HQ Campus
      • Interpretive Center and Campus Description
      • Facility Rental Information
      • Events at REEF Interpretive Center
      • Speakers Bureau
  • My REEF
    • My Data
    • My Account
    • Log in
  • Events
    • What's Coming Up
      • Calendar
      • Listing of Upcoming Events
    • Ongoing Events
      • Public Events at REEF Interpretive Center, Key Largo
      • REEF Fish & Friends - monthly seminar series
      • Fishinars - remote learning
      • Lionfish Derby Series
      • Citizen Science Saturday
    • REEF Fest - an annual celebration
      • About
      • Schedule
      • Registration
      • Lodging
      • Seminars
      • Diving
      • Social Events
      • Ecotours
      • Sponsors
      • Silent Auction and Raffle
      • Locations and Maps
Home » Species » Galleries

Species Galleries - Tropical Eastern Pacific

Mexican Goatfish

Mexican Goatfish

White head and body, often with some bluish tinting and fine markings. Also known as the Mexican goatfish.
Spotted Sharpnose Puffer

Spotted Sharpnose Puffer

Whitish spots often tinted yellowish to bluish; head and body reddish brown to gray ad greenish gray; no spots on fins.
Reef Cornetfish

Reef Cornetfish

Silvery with blue to blue-green to green tints on back; silvery white belly. Two thin blue lines on back and sides.
Giant Hawkfish

Giant Hawkfish

Medium to light olive to brown. Large, fat lips; tassels on tips of dorsal fin spines. Also known as the hieroglyphic hawkfish.
Panamic Fangblenny

Panamic Fanged Blenny

Olive to brown; reddish circle around eye. Blunt head with large lips and obvious cirri. Can lack bar markings (as shown in this picture).
Cortez Rainbow Wrasse

Cortez Rainbow Wrasse

TP: Body varies from violet to reddish green; blue dorsal, anal and tail fins. IP: Dark back, may display a second yellow stripe below dorsal fin. Belly white.
Mexican Hogfish

Mexican Hogfish

Gray, tinted red to reddish brown or green to blue-green. Large bulbous bump develops on head with age. Also known as the streamer hogfish.
Chameleon Wrasse

Chameleon Wrasse

Can change colors rapidly and dramatically. Terminal phase head shades of salmon changing to shades of blue-green on body. Initial phase adults are light reddish brown to bluish white, with dark spot above pectoral fin.
Azure Parrotfish

Azure Parrotfish

Green; fins marked and shaded with blue and salmon. Adult females and males light blue to gray-blue and dusky blue. Juveniles reddish brown. Tail is square, compared with the similar looking terminal blue-chin parrot that has a lunate tail.
Barred Serrano

Barred Serrano

Back gray to brown or yellow-brown; belly white; tail translucent with orangish spots. Often rests on bottom, sitting on pectoral and anal fins.

Pages

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • Next
  • Last

Social menu

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

REEF Headquarters | P.O. Box 370246 | 98300 Overseas Hwy | Key Largo, FL 33037 | USA
Phone: 305-852-0030 | Fax: 305-852-0301 | email: reefhq@REEF.org
©2018 REEF - All rights reserved