Hong Kong Reef Fish Photo Guide

"Hong Kong Reef Fish Photo Guide" is a handy guide for divers, snorkelers,nature fellows as well as nature consumers. It helps readers to identify the marine fishes of Hong Kong which could be encountered in diving hotspots in local waters. In addition it provides information on the status, distribution, biology and ecology of the species. This book contains description and underwater photos of over 270 marine fishes (occupy 80% of 350 spcies of reef fish in Hong Kong) occurring in local waters and includes 14 new fish records to Hong Kong. This book aims to help readers to understand the diversity of Hong Kong marine fishes in greater depth and to develop an appreciation to our marine environment.

In general, identification guides of fishes present species according to the phylogeny of fish families, or in other words, the species accounts are arranged according to the taxonomic relationship among the fish families. In this case, the most evolutionarily primitive species such as sharks and rays come first, and the most highly evolved such as puffers and porcupinefishes lat. However, for the benefit of target readers of this book, who may not have in-depth knowledge in fish phylogeny but would like to quickly retrieve identification and information of a particular species, fish families are arranged according to the most conventional english common name of that fish family in this book. Angelfishes and boxfishes are illustrated in the early section, whilst velvetfishes and wrasses come later, according to the alphabetical order. For this book, the common name of each fish family are selected according to FishBase

  

Foreword

Introduction

Fish-A Quick Overview

Angelfishes (Pomacanthidae)

Asian Seaperches (Lateolabracidae)

Bamboo Sharks (Hemiscyllidae)

Bandfishes (Cepolidae)

Barracudas (Sphyraenidae)

Batfishes (Ephippidae)

Boxfishes (Ostraciidae)

Butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae)

Butterfly Rays (Gymnuridae)

Cardinalfishes (Apogonidae)

Combtooth Blennies (Blenniidae)

Cornetfishes (Fistulariidae)

Croakers (Sciaenidae)

Damselfishes (Pomacentridae)

Dartfishes (Ptereleotridae)

Dragonets (Callionymidae)

Eagle Rays (Myliobatidae)

Eeltail Catfishes (Plotosidae)

Emperors (Lethrinidae)

Filefishes (Monacanthidae)

Flatheads (Platycephalidae)

Flying Gurrnards (Dactylopteridae)

Frogfishes (Antennariidae)

Fusiliers (Caesionidae)

Goatfishes (Mullidae)

Gobies (Gobiidae)

Groupers (Serranidae)

Hairtails (Trichiuridae)

Hawkfishes (Cirrhitidae)

Jacks (Carangidae)

Knifejaws (Oplegnathidae(

Lizardfishes (Synodontidae)

Medusafishes (Centrolophidae)

Mojarras (Gerreidae)

Moonyfishes (Monodactylidae)

Moorish Idol (Zanclidae)

Moray Eels (Muraenidae)

Morwongs (Cheilodactylidae)

Mullets (Mugilidae)

Needlefishes (Belonidae)

Parrotfishes (Scaridae)

Ponyfishes (Leiognathidae)

Porcupinefishes (Diodontidae)

Porgies (Sparidae)

Puferfishes (Tetraodontidae)

Rabbitfishes (Siganidae)

Remoras (Echeneidae)

Rockfishes (Sebastidae)

Sandperches (Pinguipedidae)

Scats (Scatophagidae)

Scorpionfishes (Scorpaenidae)

Sea Chubs (Kyphosidae)

Seahorses (Syngnathidae)

Searobins (Triglidae)

Sillagos (Sillaginidae)

Snake Eels (Ophichthidae)

Snappers (Lutjanidae)

Squirrelfishes (Holocentridae)

Stingrays (Dasyatidae)

Surgeonfishes (Acanthuridae)

Sweepers (Pempheridae)

Sweetlips (Haemulidae)

Threadfin Breams (Nemipteridae)

Tigerfishes (Terapontidae)

Triggerfishes (Balistidae)

Triplefins (Tripterygiidae)

Trumpetishes (Aulostomidae)

Tunas (Scombridae)

Velvetfishes (Aploactinidae)

Waspfishes (Tetrarogidae)

Wrasses (Labridae)

Word from Authors

Bibliography

Index of Common Names

Index of Scientific Names

Acknowledgements