Oriental Sweetlips
Snubbed face with big yellow lips, big eyes, black and white longitudinal stripes on the body. Black spots on yellow fins.
Snubbed face with big yellow lips, big eyes, black and white longitudinal stripes on the body. Black spots on yellow fins.
Even white and yellow longitudinal strips separated by a thin black margin all along the head and body. Yellow fins.
Classic sweetlips shapes with big lips, dirty yellow coloured body and fins, covered in dark spots.
Most conspicuous trigger: white circular patches on black belly, yellow reticulated pattern over black back, small white face mask and orange mouth.
Variable: dark or pale brown body, with pale narrow vertical bar from behind the eye. Distinctive feature is the white margined tail.
Not to be confused with the Indian or gilded trigger. Dark brown or black body, with white black-margined dorsal and anal fins, and pinkish mother-of-pearl coloured tail.
Based on Hamilton Island right in the marina, the Explore Group run a number of day boats visiting various spots in the Whitsundays and the Outer Reef. The two snorkel and dive catamarans: the 24m Reef Explorer and the 19m Pure Dive regularly visit dive spots on Bait Reef – the closest of the Great…
Two broad vertical pale bands across very dark coloured body, one between the eye and pectoral fin, the other just passed the middle. Yellow/orange caudal (tail) and pectoral too, and…
Dark blue body with paler blue head, lunate tails with long lobes. Usually identified by behaviour: feeding in aggregations in mid-water.
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