Temperate bottom fish with thickened lower pectoral fin rays they prop themselves on. Southern Australian reef fauna, and one of the clearest signs on this site that a dive is in cold water rather than warm.
They rest on the bottom rather than hovering over it, which is what the thickened rays are for, and they let a diver come close before moving off a short distance and settling again. The red morwong is one of the commonest fish on New South Wales rocky reef and is normally the first thing photographed there.
The group here spans two families and is held together by that habit and by where it lives rather than by relationship. The bastard trumpeter schools in kelp in Tasmania and Victoria and behaves differently from the rest.
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 4 carry a record at each destination. A species usually carries several, so these do not add up to 4.
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