Swansea

Fish Species

Saturday 15th

July 2017

The first Swansea Fish Photo Shoot, organised by the Combined Hunter Underwater

Group (CHUG), was run on 15th

July 2017. Conditions were perfect for fish

photography with excellent visibility and light currents.

Thanks to the 10 participants who sent in photos:

Ash Smith, Margo Smith, Cath Shorthouse, Meryl Larkin, Nicola Davis, Tom Davis,

Kate Tinson, Ian Medcalf, Gina Mascord, Terry Roche

Between the teams photos of 84 different species were sent in. The album below

shows photos for each species.

Banded goatfish

(Parupeneus multifasciatus)

Banded toadfish

(Torquigener pleurogramma)

Bartail/freckled goatfish

(Upeneus tragula)

Bengal sergeant (Abudefduf bengalensis)

Black Rabbitfish, Happy Moments

(Siganus fuscescens)

Black rockcod

(Epinephelus daemelii)

Black-spotted goatfish (Parupeneus spilurus)

Black-spotted wrasse

(Austrolabrus maculatus)

Blotched Hawkfish

(Cirrhitichthys aprinus)

Swansea Fish Photo Shoot - Species Album - 2017

Blue-barred orange parrotfish

(Scarus ghobban)

Blue-lined goatfish

(Upeneichthys lineatus)

Blue-nose whiting/Sand whiting

(Sillago ciliata)

Bluespotted cornetfish

(Fistularia commersonii)

Bridled leatherjacket

(Acanthaluteres spilomelanurus) Brown sabretooth blenny

(Petroscirtes lupus)

Cleaner wrasse

(Labroides dimidiatus)

Cockerel wrasse

(Pteragogus enneacanthus)

Common silver belly

(Gerres subfasciatus)

Conspicuous Angelfish

(Chaetodontoplus conspicillatus)

Crested morwong

(Cheilodactylus vestitus) Crimson-banded wrasse (Notolabrus gymnogenis)

Cut-ribbon wrasse (Stethojulis interrupta)

Diamond-scale goatfish (Parupeneus ciliatus)

Dusky butterflyfish

(Chaetodon flavirostris)

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Eastern blue groper (Achoerodus viridis)

Eastern fortescue

(Centropogon australis) Eastern smooth boxfish (Anoplocapros inermis)

Eastern striped trumpeter (Pelates sexlineatus)

Eastern talma

(Chelmonops truncatus)

Fan-belly leatherjacket

(Monacanthus chinensis)

Finespot Wrasse

(Cirrhilabrus punctatus)

Girdled parma

(Parma unifasciata)

Green moray

(Gymnothorax prasinus)

Gunther's butterflyfish (Chaetodon guentheri)

Gunthers wrasse (Pseudolabrus guentheri)

Half-banded seaperch (Hypoplectrodes maccullochi)

Hit and run blenny

(Plagiotremus tapeinosoma)

Horned Blenny

(Parablennius intermedius)

Immaculate damsel

(Mecaenichthys immaculatus)

Swansea Fish Photo Shoot - Species Album - 2017

Kelpfish

(Chironemus marmoratus)

Lilac-tipped basslet

(Pseudanthias rubrizonatus) Long-fin pike

(Dinolestes lewini)

Luculentus wrasse

(Pseudolabrus luculentus) Luderick

(Girella tricuspidata)

Malabar cod

(Epinephelus malabaricus)

Maori wrasse (Ophthalmolepis lineolatus)

Moon wrasse (Thalassoma lunare)

Moses' Snapper

(Lutjanus russellii)

Old wife

(Enoplosus armatus)

One-spot puller

(Chromis hypsilepis)

Painted stinkfish

(Eocallionymus papilio)

Pale-barred coris

(Coris dorsomacula)

Pencilled surgeonfish

(Acanthurus dussumieri)

Pineapple fish

(Cleidopus gloriamaris)

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Pygmy leatherjacket

(Brachaluteres jacksonianus)

Red morwong

(Cheilodactylus fuscus) Rough leatherjacket

(Scobinichthys granulatus)

Sawtail surgeonfish

(Prionurus microlepidotus)

Sawtooth Pipefish

(Maroubra perserrata)

Schooling bannerfish

(Heniochus diphreutes)

Sergeant major

(Abudefduf vaigiensis) Silver trevally

(Pseudocaranx georgianus)

Snake-skin wrasse

(Eupetrichthys angustipes)

Snapper

(Pagrus auratus)

Southern Grubfish

(Parapercis australis)

Spotted sawtail

(Prionurus maculatus)

Stars-and-stripes puffer (Arothron hispidus)

Stripey

(Microcanthus strigatus)

Sydney cardinalfish (Apogon limenus)

Swansea Fish Photo Shoot - Species Album - 2017

Tarwhine (Rhabdosargus sarba)

Threadfin butterflyfish (Chaetodon auriga)

Three-bar porcupinefish

(Dicotylichthys punctulatus)

Three-ribbon wrasse

(Stethojulis strigiventer) Tube-worm blenny

(Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos)

Violetline parrotfish (Scarus globiceps)

White-ear (Parma microlepis)

Whitefin Surgeonfish

(Acanthurus albipectoralis)

Whitley's Sergeant (Abudefduf whitleyi)

Yellow boxfish (Ostracion cubicus)

Yellow fin bream (Acanthapagrus australis)

Yellow sabretooth blenny

(Petroscirtes fallax)

Yellow-back puller (Chromis nitida)

Yellow-finned leatherjacket (Meuschenia trachylepis)

Yellow-tail scad (Trachurus novaezelandiae)