Identification Groups

This is a list of identification groups to identify fish.

1. Disks and Ovals/Colorful

Angelfishes	Butterflyfishes	Surgeonfishes
Queen Angelfish Blue Angelfish Gray Angelfish French Angelfish	Pyramid Butterflyfish	Surgeonfish (In General)

 2. Silvery

Dolphinfish	Jacks	Mackerels	Wahoo	Needlefish
Mahi-Mahi	Horse-eye Jack Almaco Jack Crevalle Jack	King Mackerel Spanish Mackerel	Wahoo	Needlefishes (In General)
Barracuda	Grunts	Bonefishes	Snooks	Mullets
Great Barracuda	Sailers Grunt	Bonefish	Common	Flathead
Porgies	Tarpon	Cobia	Flying Fishes	Spadefish

3.Sloping Heads/Tapered Bodies

Grunts	Snappers
White Grunt	Grey Snapper Red Snapper

4.Small Ovals

Damselfishes	Hamlets
Damselfish (In General)	Hamlets (In General)

5. Heavy Bodies/Large Lips

Groupers	Basses
Giant Grouper Nassau Grouper	Seabasses (In General)
Soapfishes	Basslets
Goldribbon Soapfish	Basslet (In General) Royal Gamma

6. Swim with Pectoral Fins/Obvious Scales

Parrotfishes	Hogfishes	Wrasses	Razorfishes
Parrotfish (In General) Rainbow Parrotfish	Hogfish (In General)	In General

7. Reddish/Big Eyes

Bigeyes	Cardinalfishes	Squirrelfishes
	Cardinalfish (In General)	In General

8. Small Bottom Dwellers

Gobies

Jawfishes

Blennies

9. Odd Shaped Bottom Dwellers

Flounders	Batfishes	Clingfishes	Frogfishes
Toadfishes	Scorpionfishes	Sea Robins	Pipefishes
Hawkfishes	Cods

10. Odd shaped Swimmers

Trumpetfishes	Cornetfishes	Tilefishes
Puffers	Porcupines	Boxfishes
Triggerfishes	Filefishes	Drums
Tripletails	Goatfishes	Sweepers
Ramoras

11. Eels

Morays

Congers

Snake Eels

12. Sharks and Rays

Requiem Sharks	Pointed-nose Sharks	Rays
Nurse Sharks	Hammerheads