Pulau Semakau checklist - chordates - fishes, marine snakes and ascidians

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Pulau Semakau checklist
updated Nov 09

Intertidal flora and fauna

Phylum Chordata

Subphylum Tunicata/Urochordata
Class Ascidiacea (ascidians)

White ascidian
awaiting identification

Pink ascidian
awaiting identification

Orange lobed ascidian
awaiting identification

Green gum drop ascidian
awaiting identification

Subphylum Vertebrata
Marine snakes

Banded file snake
Acrochordus granulatus Family Acrochordidae

Dog-faced water snake
Cerberus rynchops
Family Colubridae

Yellow-lipped sea krait
Laticauda colubrina
Family Hydrophiidae

Subphylum Vertebrata
Fishes

Black frogfish awaiting identification Family Antennariidae	Spotted-tail frogfish Lophiocharon trisignatus Family Antennariidae	Tropical silverside Atherinomorus duodecimalis Family Athernidae	Chequered cardinalfish Apogon margaritophorus Family Apogonidae	Brown-stripe wrasse Halichoeres bicolor Family Labridae
Spotted perchlet awaiting identification Family Chandidae	Worm-eel Muraenichthys sp. Family Ophichthidae	Burrowing snake-eel Pisodonophis crancrivorous	Short-nose halfbeak awaiting identification Family Hemiramphidae	Razorfish Family Centriscidae
Gold-spotted mudskipper Periophthalmus chrysospilos Family Gobiidae	Silver-lined mudskipper Periophthalmus argentilineatus Family Gobiidae	Slender-lined shrimp-goby Cryptocentrus leptocephalus Family Gobiidae	Specked shrimp-goby Cryptocentrus sp. Family Gobiidae	Variable fang-blenny Petroscirtes variabilis Family Blennidae
Shadow goby Acentrogobius nebulosus Family Gobiidae	Head-stripe goby Amblygobius stethophthalmus Family Gobiidae	Brown shore goby Drombus triangularis Family Gobiidae
Freckled goatfish Upeneus tragula Family Mullidae	Single eyelid flathead awaiting identification Family Platycephalidae	Keyhole eyelid flathead awaiting identification Family Platycephalidae	Mosaic d ragonet awaiting identification Family Callionymidae
Tomato anemonefish Amphiprion frenatus Family Pomacentridae	False clown anemonefish Amphiprion ocellaris Family Pomacentridae	Yellow-banded damselfish Dischistodus fasciatus Family Pomacentridae	Batfish Platax sp. Family Ephippidae	Copperbanded butterflyfish Chelmon rostratus Family Chaetodontidae
Striped eeltail catfish Plotosus lineatus Family Plotosidae	Carpet eel-blenny Congrogadus subducens Family Pseudochromidae	Blue-spotted fantail ray Taeniura lymma Family Dasyatidae	Large-tooth flounders Family Paralichthyidae	Bristletail filefish awaiting identification Family Monacanthidae
Estuarine seahorse Hippocampus kuda Family Syngnathidae	Tiger-tailed seahorse Hippocampus comes Family Syngnathidae	Alligator pipefish Syngnathoides biaculeatus Family Syngnathidae	Seagrass pipefish awaiting identification Family Syngnathidae
Yelloweye pufferfish Arothron immaculatus Family Tetraodontidae	Painted scorpionfish Parascorpaena picta Family Scorpaenidae	False scorpionfish Centrogenys vaigiensis	Three-spined toadfish Batrachomoeus trispinosus Family Batrachoididae	Hollow-cheeked stonefish Synanceia horrida

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