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The common name of high-fin surgeonfish is: sail-fin hanging upside down. The height of the dorsal fin is approximately equal to the body height. There is one forward spine on each side of the caudal peduncle. There is a···
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The common name of French crappie: French crappie. The kiss stands out. The front rays of the dorsal and anal fins are long filaments. The body is dark brown with several yellow arc stripes and golden yellow between the ···
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From the appearance, the leaf fish looks exactly like a leaf. It can adapt to its environment and change color, so it can sneak up on its prey. Its mouth opens wide and it can swallow very large fish.
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Common name of Spotted Pepper Snapper: Butterfly Bass. The dorsal fin has deep notches between spines and rays. Juvenile fish and adult fish have different body colors. The head and body of the adult fish have brown spot···
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The common name of flame spiny fish is: Shining Fairy. The posterior horn of the preopercular bone has a strong posterior spine. The body is bright red with 6 black horizontal bands. Body length 6 cm. Distribution area: ···
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The common name of the two-color thornfish is: Stone Beauty. There is a blue-black band between the eyes on the side of the head. The front part of the body is yellow, the back part is blue, and the tail is yellow. Body ···
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The common name of Jiajiri fish: golden towel. There are 8 black-edged blue-purple horizontal bands on the side of the body, with both ends of the bands slightly bent backwards. Body length 14 cm. Distribution areas: Sou···
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Common name of horsefish: Guandao butterfly. The fourth fin spine and fin membrane of the dorsal fin are long whip-shaped. There is a black horizontal band between the eyes. There are 2 black horizontal bands on the side···
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The black-gill surgeonfish has a sharp spine on each side of its tail handle. Juveniles are purple-yellow and adults are dark brown. There are orange spots on the front and back of the orbit. There are dense orange dark ···
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The common name of shoulder-ringed crappie is white-tailed blue-striped crappie. There is a blue ring on the shoulder. There are 6 blue diagonal bands on the side of the body, and many young fish have ring patterns. Body···
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The common name of boxfish is horn. The head and body armor are pentagonal, with a pair of preorbital spines and lumbar spines. The tail fin has purple-blue round spots. Body armor yellow-green. Body length 56 cm. Distri···
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White-edged saw-scale turtle. There is a red-black narrow band on the epithelial membrane on the posterior upper edge of the opercular bone, and a large purple-red spot on the axilla of the pectoral fin. The front edges ···
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Black-bodied tube-nosed moray eel. Common name: Macai eel. The front nose of juvenile fish is tubular, and the tube wall becomes membranous as it grows. The ends of the upper and lower jaws must be branched and elongated···
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Black-spotted spiny bass. Common name: Black-and-white gillfish. The number of pectoral fin rays is mostly 17. The ends of the dorsal and anal fin rays are rounded, and the juvenile fish has 6 black horizontal spots on i···
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Blue-spotted butterfly fish. Common name: blue seal butterfly. The body is yellow, with a horizontal band passing through the eyes on the head. There are about 20 brown longitudinal lateral lines on the side of the body.···
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Whip butterfly fish. Common name: Black-rumped butterfly. The fourth ray of the dorsal fin is extended in a filamentous shape. There is a large oval blue-black spot on the back and upper part of the body. The lower edge ···
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The tentacled lionfish has a large mouth. The pectoral and dorsal fin spines are very long and the fin membranes are deeply split. The pectoral fin membrane is fan-shaped and has brown spots. Horizontal banding, no longi···
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White star grouper. The body is dark brown and the edge of the dorsal fin is white. There are white spots scattered on the sides of the body, dorsal fin, anal fin and tail fin, but the white spots on the side of the body···
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Bicolor damselfish. The vomer and jaw bones have teeth. The lateral line is interrupted, the upper lateral line is almost close to the dorsal edge of the body, and the lower lateral line extends to the base of the tail. ···
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Four-banded horsefish. Common name: Huaguandao. The fourth fin spine of the dorsal fin is significantly extended and takes the shape of a long whip. There are four colored horizontal bands on the sides of the head and bo···
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Girl fish. The lips are thick and slightly raised. The fin spine is shorter than the fin ray, and the last fin spine is slightly shorter than the first fin ray. There are 4 brown horizontal bands on the head and sides of···
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Hairy fish has flat sides and a protruding abdomen. The body is covered with fine villi-like spines. big head. The gill openings are small and located below the base of the arm-like pectoral fins. The top of the first do···
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The hunchbacked, triangular body of the pufferfish is surrounded by bone armor composed of polygonal plate-like scales. The cross-section of the body is roughly triangular. The scale plate in the middle of the dorsal rib···
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Both eyes of Konoha flounder are on the right side of the head. The body on the eye side is brown with dark fine spots; the eye side is white. Both sides of the body are covered with small round scales. The mouth is smal···
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