Cairns Fish Identification by Shape

Please look up the group most resembling the fish sought, then click on a thumbnail to see more photos of the respective family

Disk-shaped Reef Colorfuls

Butterflyfishes

Angelfishes

Large Oval-shaped Fishes

Surgeonfishes

Rabbitfishes

Small Ovals – Damselfishes and Anemonefishes

Damselfishes

Anemonefishes

Sloping heads/Tapered Bodies

Snappers

Coral Breams

Emperors

Silvery

Batfishes	Trevallies	Barracudas
Drummers	Longtoms

Slender Colorful Schooling Fishes

Fusiliers

Anthias

Heavy Bodies/Large Lips

Rockcods/Gropers

Hawkfishes

Sweetlips

Swim with Pectoral Fins/Colorfuls

Parrotfishes

Wrasses

Reddish/Big Eyes/Nocturnals

Squirrelfishes/Soldierfishes

Cardinalfishes

Bigeyes

Cryptic Cave Dwellers

Longfins/Devilfishes

Dottybacks

Small Elongate Bottom Dwellers

Sandperches	Blennies	Triplefins
Gobies	Dartfishes	Clingfishes

Odd-shaped Bottom Dwellers

Scorpionfishes/Lionfishes

Lizardfishes

Odd-shaped Swimmers

Goatfishes	Trumpetfishes	Flutemouths/Cornetfishes
Triggerfishes	Leatherjackets/Filefishes	Boxfishes
Pufferfishes	Razorfishes/Shrimpfishes

Eels

Moray Eels

Sharks and Rays

Requiem Sharks

Weasel Sharks

Whiptail Stingrays