Caribbean Species Catalog (26 Signature Subjects)
Identify fish, rays, sea turtles, and marine invertebrates observed across Caribbean coral reefs.
French angelfish
Pomacanthus paru • Angelfish
"Gold-edged scales and a rounded yellow tail"
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Queen angelfish
Holacanthus ciliaris • Angelfish
"Vibrant blue and yellow body with blue crown"
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Blue tang
Acanthurus coeruleus • Surgeonfish
"Deep blue body with bright yellow caudal spine"
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Stoplight parrotfish
Sparisoma viride • Parrotfish
"Terminal male emerald green with yellow spot"
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Queen parrotfish
Scarus vetula • Parrotfish
"Blue-green body with pink and teal stripes"
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Yellowtail snapper
Ocyurus chrysurus • Snapper
"Yellow mid-lateral stripe to deeply forked tail"
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Foureye butterflyfish
Chaetodon capistratus • Butterflyfish
"Large black spot encircled in white near tail"
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Graysby
Cephalopholis cruentata • Grouper
"Reddish spots on grey body with dark dorsal spots"
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Spotted eagle ray
Aetobatus narinari • Ray
"Dark back covered in white spots with long whip tail"
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Hawksbill turtle
Eretmochelys imbricata • Sea Turtle
"Hawk-like curved beak and overlapping shell scutes"
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Fairy basslet
Gramma loreto • Basslet
"Bicolor: vibrant violet front fading into yellow back"
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Caribbean spiny lobster
Panulirus argus • Crustacean
"Long spiny antennae and mottled brown/cream tail"
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Green sea turtle
Chelonia mydas • Sea Turtle
"Single pair of prefrontal scales between eyes"
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Longsnout butterflyfish
Prognathodes aculeatus • Butterflyfish
"Elongated pipelike snout and dark eye bar"
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Great barracuda
Sphyraena barracuda • Barracuda
"Silvery cylindrical body with dark bars"
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Rock beauty
Holacanthus tricolor • Angelfish
"Bright yellow front head with jet-black midsection"
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Hogfish
Lachnolaimus maximus • Wrasse
"Pig-like snout and elongated dorsal fin rays"
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Blue parrotfish
Scarus coeruleus • Parrotfish
"Uniformly bright blue body with yellow spot on head"
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Black grouper
Mycteroperca bonaci • Grouper
"Olive or dark grey with dark rectangular blotches"
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Bluestriped grunt
Haemulon sciurus • Grunt
"Yellow body with thin horizontal blue stripes"
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Nassau grouper
Epinephelus striatus • Grouper
"Five dark vertical bars and tuning-fork forehead mark"
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Sergeant major
Abudefduf saxatilis • Damselfish
"Five black vertical bars on yellow-green body"
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French grunt
Haemulon flavolineatum • Grunt
"Yellowish body with diagonal yellow stripes"
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Lionfish
Pterois volitans • Scorpionfish
"Red, white, black zebra stripes with fan spines"
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Trumpetfish
Aulostomus maculatus • Trumpetfish
"Long tubular body, often swimming head-down"
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Spotted drum
Equetus punctatus • Drum
"High dorsal fin with white spots on dark body"
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