Nature photographer, environmental educator, and Golden Hamlet REEF surveyor Jonathan Lavan will be going over some key identifying characteristics for Triggerfishes and Filefishes in the Tropical Western Atlantic. This Fishinar is a remastered version of the 2013 original, which you can check out here.
Slender Filefish photo by Jonathan Lavan
Species covered in this session:
- Queen Triggerfish, (Balistes vetula)
- Gray Triggerfish, (Balistes capriscus)
- Ocean Triggerfish, (Canthidermis sufflamen)
- Sargassum Triggerfish, (Xanthichthys ringens)
- Black Durgon, (Melichthys niger)
- Scrawled Filefish, (Aluterus scriptus)
- Whitespotted Filefish, (Cantherhines macrocerus)
- Orangespotted Filefish, (Cantherhines pullus)
- Slender Filefish, (Monacanthus tuckeri)
- Planehead Filefish, (Stephanolepis hispidus)
- Fringed Filefish, (Monacanthus ciliatus)
- Pygmy Filefish, (Stephanolepis setifer)