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Colour: inshore scapionfishes are mostly brown or various mottled and barred with dark<br />

pigment on ligher background. Deeper water are mostly red, <strong>of</strong>ten with spots or darker red,<br />

rown or black and with white skin filaments.<br />

Geographical distribution and behaviour<br />

Thoughout the region.<br />

SOLEIDAE<br />

Colour: eyed side greyis brown to redish brown, blid side white. Both eyes on rightside <strong>of</strong> the<br />

head. Pectoral fins absent or present. No fin spine.<br />

Feeding: feeds on benthic invertebrates and fishes. Are pelagic spawners.<br />

Geographical distribution and behaviour<br />

Western Indian Ocean,Red Sea,Natal,Mozambique, India and Japan.<br />

SYNGNATHIDAE<br />

Colour: variable from brown or dark brown, or banded.<br />

Geographical distribution and behaviour<br />

Temperate and sub-tropical Indo-Pacific, Inhaca, Mozambique, <strong>Kenya</strong>, Madagascar, Pinda<br />

and Zanzibar. Sexual dimorphic, male carry eggs exposed.<br />

TETRAODONTIDAE<br />

Colour: varible.<br />

Geographical distribution and behaviour<br />

Some species contain contanin tetraodotoxin especially inm viscera, in gonads <strong>of</strong> some<br />

species during spawning season.<br />

Feeding: some spedcies consume abouyt ecverything where others have preference for certain<br />

invertebrates.<br />

Distribution: tropical and subtropical, India and Pacific.<br />

TERAPONIDAE<br />

Colour: Body yellowish, silvery-grey with white belly, 3-longtudinal brown.<br />

Geographical distribution and behaviour<br />

From Red Sea, East Africa to Mozambique. Feeds on bentrhic invertebrates and small fishes.<br />

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