Specimen List **Updated 19th January 10**

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Specimen List **Updated 19th January 10**

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Below is a list of links to discussion topics on each species of fish. There is a similar poll in each of these threads which I wish every angler to participate in. Each angler can help by simply sharing their encounter with each species of fishes. We hope to learn about the diversity and distribution of different species of fishes around our little island.

Many thanks in advance for your contribution. :grin: :flower:

:fish: Identified fish specimens :fish2:
  1. Blackspot Tuskfish
  2. Waigieu Seaperch
  3. Harry Hotlips
  4. Saddle Grunter
  5. Javelin Grunter
  6. Whitecheek Monocle Bream
  7. Orange-spotted Grouper
  8. Ten-pounder
  9. Indian threadfish
  10. Golden Trevally
  11. Copperbanded Butterflyfish
  12. Butterfly Whiptail
  13. Brownstripe Red Snapper
  14. Anchor Tuskfish
  15. Bumpnose Trevally
  16. Freckled Goatfish
  17. Deep-bodied Mojarra
  18. Lattice Monocle Bream
  19. Fan-bellied Leatherjacket
  20. Yellowstripe Scad
  21. Hound Needlefish
  22. Black-barred Halfbeak
  23. Candystripe Cardinalfish
  24. Blackspot Snapper
  25. Streaked Spinefoot
  26. White-spotted Spinefoot
  27. Talang Queenfish
  28. Lizardfish
  29. Green Rough-backed Puffer
  30. Charcoal Damsel
  31. Yellowstriped Sweetlips
  32. Red-banded Maori Wrasse
  33. Barred Soapfish
  34. Duskytail Grouper
  35. Saw-jawed Monocle Bream
  36. Fringe-eyed Flathead
  37. Sergeant Major
  38. Banded Archerfish
  39. Blue-barred Parrotfish
  40. Carpet Eel-blenny
  41. Prickly Leatherjacket
  42. Seagrass Tuskfish
  43. Five-spot Herring
  44. Silty Wrasse
  45. White-shouldered Whiptail
  46. Bartail Flathead
  47. Silver Biddy
  48. Largetooth Flounder
  49. Black Eeltail Catfish
  50. Estuarine Moray
  51. Remora
  52. Long-tail Tripodfish
  53. Blacktail Snapper
  54. Narrow-barred Spanish Mackerel
  55. Spanish Flag Snapper
  56. John's Snapper
  57. Russell's Snapper
  58. Bluelined Hind
  59. Green Chromide
  60. Longfin Grouper
  61. Threespine Toadfish
  62. Needlescaled Queenfish
  63. Pink Ear Emperor
  64. Brownback Trevally
  65. Chocolate Hind
  66. Belanger's Croaker
  67. Longhead Grunt
  68. Brown Stingray
  69. Ornate Threadfin Bream
  70. Two-spot Red Snapper
  71. Floral Wrasse
  72. Indo-Pacific King Mackerel
  73. Pickhandle Barracuda
  74. Spotted Sicklefish
  75. Longrakered Trevally
  76. Longfin Trevally
  77. False Scorpionfish
  78. Yellowtail Barracuda
  79. Flat Needlefish
  80. Quoy's Halfbeak
  81. Goatee Croaker
  82. Silver Sillago
  83. Giant Trevally
  84. Brown-marbled Grouper
  85. Indian Snapper
  86. Painted Sweetlips
  87. Dorab Wolf-herring
  88. Spotted Scat
  89. Yellowtail Scad
  90. Jarbua Terapon
  91. Diamond Wrasse
  92. Bristle-tail Filefish
  93. Yellowtail Damselfish
  94. Lagoon Damsel
  95. Painted Scorpionfish
  96. Striped Ponyfish
  97. Cobia
  98. Spotted Coralgrouper
  99. Spangled Emperor
  100. Short-nosed Tripodfish
  101. Monogrammed Monocle Bream
  102. Blacktail Chromis
  103. Truncate Cardinalfish
  104. Fowleria Polystigma
  105. Smallscale Cardinal
  106. Twostripe Cardinal
  107. Redbelly Yellowtail Fusilier
  108. Silver Moony
  109. Brown-spotted Moray
  110. Squaretail Mullet
  111. Honey-head Damsel
  112. Greenback Mullet
  113. Oriental Sillago
  114. Striped-nose Halfbeak
  115. Spotted Green Puffer
  116. Reticulated Pufferfish
  117. Spottail Needlefish
  118. Yellowbar Sandperch
  119. Striped Eeltail Catfish
  120. Yellow-banded Damsel
  121. Peacock Hind
  122. Sixbar Angelfish
  123. Blacktip Reef Shark
  124. Six-lined Trumpeter
  125. White-spotted Puffer
  126. Decorated Ponyfish
  127. Goldstripe Ponyfish
  128. Malabar Grouper
  129. Barramundi
  130. Mangrove Red Snapper
  131. Scissortail Sergeant
  132. Atlantic Tripletail
  133. Unicorn Leatherjacket
  134. Roving Coralgrouper
  135. Silverstripe Blaasop
  136. Shortnose Boxfish
  137. Hardyhead Silverside
  138. Common Bullseye
  139. Checkered Snapper
  140. Vermiculated Angelfish
  141. Immaculate Puffer
  142. Common Ponyfish
  143. Star Snapper
  144. Pearly Monocle Bream
  145. Tiera Batfish
  146. Indian Pike Conger
  147. Crimson Snapper
  148. White Sardinella
  149. Fourfinger Threadfin
  150. Tiger-toothed Croaker
  151. Tropical Sand Goby
  152. Three-spot Cardinalfish
  153. Indian Threadfin
  154. Ornate Emperor
  155. Milkfish
  156. Pink-speckled Shrimpgoby
  157. Polkadot-fin Goby
  158. Golden Flathead Goby
  159. Black-lined Lagoon-goby
  160. Saddle Shrimp-goby
  161. Mud Reef-goby
  162. Smallmouth Scad
  163. Razorbelly Scad
  164. White Damsel
  165. Indian Anchovy
  166. Freckled Hawkfish
  167. Humpback cardinal
  168. Humpbacked Cardinalfish
  169. Slender Seamoth
  170. Bluespotted Stingray
  171. Giant Shovelnose Ray
  172. Bluespotted Ribbontail Ray
  173. Redcoat
  174. Bigeye Trevally
  175. Largescaled Therapon
  176. Small-scaled Terapon
  177. Slender Rainbow Sardine
  178. Brownbanded Bambooshark
  179. Starry Toadfish
  180. Pearly-spotted Wrasse
  181. Hasselt's Bambooshark
  182. Notchedfin Threadfin Bream
  183. Fourlined Terapon
  184. Lattice Blaasop
  185. Pugnose Ponyfish
  186. Barred Ponyfish
  187. Pig Faced Leather Jacket
  188. Orbfish
  189. Pastel-green Wrasse
  190. Moonfish
  191. indian Scad
  192. Cloudy Grouper
  193. Small-eyed Flathead
  194. Giant Grouper
  195. Bigeye Ilisha
  196. Leopard Whipray
  197. Sixbar Grouper
  198. Bengal Sergeant
  199. Sagor Catfish
  200. Mozambique Sea Catfish
  201. Sixspine Butterflyfish
  202. African Pompano
  203. Starry Triggerfish
  204. Bigeye Scad
:fish: Freshwater specimens :fish2:
  1. Peacock Bass
  2. Snakehead Murrel
  3. Giant Snakehead
  4. Zebra Tilapia
  5. Walking Catfish
  6. Nile Tilapia
  7. Climbing Perch
  8. Mozambique Tilapia
  9. Swamp Eel
  10. Jaguar Cichlid
  11. Flowerhorn Cichlid
  12. Mayan Cichlid
  13. Red-Tail Golden Arowana
  14. Marble Goby
  15. Forest Snakehead
  16. Forest Walking Catfish
  17. Eartheater Cichlid
:fish2: Unidentified fish specimens :fish:
  1. Wrasse 2
  2. Wrasse 3
  3. Unknown Herring 1
  4. Unknown Herring 2
Photo request for following fish:
  1. Hollow-cheek Stonefish (Synanceja Horrida)
  2. Humpback Grouper (Cromileptes Altivelis)
  3. Sixbar Grouper (Epinephelus Sexfasciatus)
  4. Cloudy Grouper (Epinephelus Erythrurus)
  5. Largehead Hairtail (Trichiurus Lepturus)
  6. Orbfish (Ephippus Orbis)
  7. Golden Pomfret (Trachinotus Mookalee)
  8. Red Drum (Sciaenops Ocellatus)
  9. Gray eel-catfish (Plotosus Canius)
  10. Indo-Pacific Tarpon (Megalops Cyprinoides)
  11. Hampala Barb / Sebarau (Hampala Macrolepidota)
  12. Giant Gourami (Osphronemus Goramy)
  13. Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon Idella)
  14. Java barb /Lampam Jawa (Barbonymus Gonionotus)
  15. Eartheater (Geophagus Altifrons)
  16. Pacu (Myleus Pacu)
  17. Belida /Clown knifefish (Chitala Chitala)
  18. Species of: Solefishes, Marine Catfish, Triggerfishes, rays and sharks.

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Re: Specimen List **Updated 19th January 10**

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grass carp you can go sheng shiong buy one then quickly take photo XD
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Re: Specimen List **Updated 19th January 10**

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That would spoil all the fun in hunting for the species of fish wouldn't it? ;) But seriously, I wouldn't know what to do with the grass carp after that. :p

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Release it lor, let a lucky somebody fish it up :) (hope that lucky somebody is me :p )
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Re: Specimen List **Updated 19th January 10**

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oi the topic i did no one notice??? walan,,,
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Some fishes i noticed were not up there,
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/220.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/220.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/213.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/214.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/202.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/382.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/154.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/378.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/151.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/354.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/355.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/356.htm (take note, has venomous spines)
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/357.htm
(according to this site, tilapias are under salt water fish)
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/147.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/323.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/328.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/315.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/297.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/296.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/306.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/275.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/276.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/278.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/253.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/263.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/264.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/272.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/273.htm
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/134.htm
Check it out when you have some free time =D
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http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/135.htm
this too. The stonefish is under the scorpion fish group
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http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebook ... xt/242.htm
This too. I will post more if i find any =D
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Re: Specimen List **Updated 19th January 10**

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Thanks for the find, some of those are actually already in HLF if you check it up. ;) There's definitely many more species in our waters not listed in HLF, I'll definitely add them to the site if manage to get a picture of it. :)

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hey peace there isnt patin thread :whistle: ?

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I'll need a picture of that fish first. It's not a native fish and I don't recall seeing reports of it being them in the wild, but they can certainly adapt to our reservoir waters.

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Peace wrote:I'll need a picture of that fish first. It's not a native fish and I don't recall seeing reports of it being them in the wild, but they can certainly adapt to our reservoir waters.
how about you start a thread and i post my pics? not so clear but worth a try :sweatdrop:

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hey sorry guys im having a problem about photobucket i cant upload! :cry:

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Peace wrote:I'll need a picture of that fish first. It's not a native fish and I don't recall seeing reports of it being them in the wild, but they can certainly adapt to our reservoir waters.
bro i saw some pics from punggolboy, that a patin is caught in punggol park.
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