Named for a pair of chin barbels they use to taste the sand while probing it. A goatfish working a sand patch is normally followed by wrasses and small snappers taking what it turns up.
They change colour markedly between feeding and resting, which is why a red fish on the sand and a pale one in a school above it can be the same species. Resting schools hang above sand and do nothing for hours.
The barbels are folded away under the chin when not in use, so a resting goatfish does not obviously have them.
Every one has a page. They are shown as a list rather than as pictures because nothing has been photographed or logged for them yet, and a species with nothing behind it should not sit in front of one that has.
How many of the 8 carry a record at each destination. A species usually carries several, so these do not add up to 8.
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