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ANTENNARIIDAE<br />

Colour: usually in two phases; a more common light phse with light tan to yellow brown or<br />

rust background. Swome frog fishes may rich sive to over 50 cm total length.<br />

Geographical distribution and behaviour<br />

Throughout the fishing area 51.<br />

APOGONIDAE<br />

Colour: are reddish in colour, mixed with silver and white, though most species are yellow,<br />

silvery and black.<br />

Geographical distribution and behaviour<br />

Fiji, Malaysia, Indo-Pacific, East Africa. Feeding predator on small fishes and invertebrates.<br />

BALISTIDAE<br />

- colour: grey dashed with olive green, 3 large white blotches on back and numerous blue<br />

spots,<br />

- maximum size 60 cm<br />

Geographical distribution and behaviour<br />

Throughout tropical and subtropical parts <strong>of</strong> the region, found over sands, sponge, and weed<br />

bottom. Shallow water down to 90m, feeds on bottom fauna<br />

BELONIDAE<br />

Colour: green or black on the back and silver white or the lower sides.<br />

Geographical distribution and behaviour<br />

- Is carnivorous feeding largely on small fishes.<br />

- Found <strong>of</strong>f coast and islands throughout the area.<br />

- Are worldwide species <strong>of</strong> tropical and warm warm-temperate waters. No special fishery.<br />

BLENNIIDAE<br />

Scaless body, premaxillae not protractile.<br />

Geographical distribution and behaviour<br />

Indian, Atlantic and Pacific; chiefly tropical and subtropical marine; rare in freshwater.<br />

Feeding: mixed diet algae and benthic invertebrates.<br />

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