Sweetlips, Goatfish, Brassy Chub, Sweeper

Giant Sweetlips
Plectorhinchus albovittatus
or obscurus?
Tulamben

Celebes Sweetlips
Plectorhinchus celebicus,
Padang Bai

Harlequin Sweetlips
Many Spotted Sweetlip
Plectorhinchus chaetodonoides,
Bias Tugal

Yellowbanded Sweetlips
Plectorhinchus lineatus,
Tulamben

Yellowbanded Sweetlips
Plectorhinchus lineatus,
Blue Lagoon/Tanjung Sari

Oriental Sweetlips
Plectorhinchus vittatus,
Tulamben

juvenile Oriental Sweetlips
Plectorhinchus vittatus,
Bias Tugal

Probably another juvenile Sweetlips,
swimming with floating refuse,
Tulamben

Humpnose Big-eye Bream,
Bigeye emperor
Monotaxis grandoculis,
Tulamben

Yellowfin Goatfish
Mulloidichthys vanicolensis, Blue Lagoon

Longbarbel Goatfish
Parupeneus macronemus,
Blue Lagoon

Manybar Goatfish
Parupeneus multifasciatus,
Blue Lagoon

Freckled Goatfish
Upeneus tragula,
below: Bias Tugal, right: Blue Lagoon

Vanikoro sweeper
Pempheris vanicolensis,
Bias Tugal

Brassy Chub, Long-finned Drummer
Kyphosus vaigiensis,
Tulamben