Saltwater Fish Identification Index - Banderas Bay, Mexico

Marine realm:   Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean
Location:   Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit & Jalisco, México (20°38′00″N, 105°28′00″W)
English Name Family Scientific Name Classification
Pacific Mutton Hamlet Grouper/Seabass Alphestes immaculatus Serranidae
Guineafowl Puffer Puffer/Smooth Arothron meleagris Tetraodontidae
Mexican Hogfish Hogfish/Wrasse Bodianus diplotaenia Labridae
Spotted Sharpnosed Puffer Puffer/Smooth Canthigaster punctatissima Tetraodontidae
Threebanded Butterflyfish Butterflyfish Chaetodon humeralis Chaetodontidae
Limbaugh's Damselfish Damselfish Chromis limbaughi Pomacentridae
Sinclair's Demoiselle Damselfish Chrysiptera sinclairi Pomacentridae
Redlight Goby Goby Coryphopterus urospilus Gobiidea
Diamond Stingray Stingray Dasyatis dipterura Dasyatidae
Balloonfish Puffer/Spiny Diodon holocanthus Tetraodontidae
Spot-fin Porcupinefish Puffer/Spiny Diodon hystrix Diodontidae
Snowflake Moray Moray Echidna nebulosa Muraenidae
Starry Grouper Grouper/Seabass Epinephelus labriformis Serranidae
Bluespotted Cornetfish Cornetfish Fistularia commersonii Fistulariidae
Zebra Moray Eel Moray Gymnomuraena zebra Muraenidae
Green Moray Moray Gymnothorax funebris Muraenidae
Spottail Grunt Grunt Haemulon maculicauda Haemulidae
Chameleon Wrasse Wrasse Halichoeres dispilus Labridae
Glasseye Snapper Bigeye Heteropriacanthus cruentatus Priacanthidae
King Angelfish Angelfish Holacanthus passer Pomacanthidae
King Angelfish Juvenile Angelfish Holacanthus passer Pomacanthidae
Blacknosed Butterflyfish Butterflyfish Johnrandallia nigriostris Chaetodontidae
Jewel Moray Moray Muraena lentiginosa Muraenidae
Leopard Grouper Grouper/Seabass Mycteroperca rosacea Serranidae
Panamic Soldierfish Squirrelfish Myripristis leiognathus Holocentridae
Giant Electric Ray Electric Ray Narcine entemedor Scorpaenidae
Largebanded Blenny Blenny Ophioblennius steindachneri Blenniidae
Pacific Creolefish Grouper/Seabass Paranthias colonus Serranidae
Fusco Drum Drum Pareques fuscovittatus Sciaenidae
Gray Angelfish (Juvenile) Angelfish Pomacanthus arcuatus Pomacanthidae
Cortez Angelfish Angelfish Pomacanthus zonipectus Pomacanthidae
Yellowtail Surgeonfish Surgeonfish Prionurus punctatus Acanthuridae
Smallfish Snake-Eel Snake Eels Quassiremus nothochir Ophichthidae
Pacific Spotted Scorpionfish Scorpionfish Scorpaena mystes Narcinidae
Barred Serrano Seabass Serranus psittacinus Serranidae
Beaubrummel Damselfish Stegastes flavilatus Pomacentridae
Cortez Rainbow Wrasse Wrasse Thalassoma lucasanum Labridae
Subnose Pompano Jack Trachinotus blochii Carangidae