Red fish with very large eyes, packed under ledges and in caves by day and out over the reef at night. The eye size is the whole story: these are nocturnal hunters that spend the daylight hours waiting.
The soldierfish of the genus Myripristis are shorter and deeper-bodied than the squirrelfish and often hang upside down against a cave roof. Both make audible clicks and grunts with the swim bladder, which carries through the water.
Several carry a sharp spine on the gill cover, and the group is best not handled for that reason.
A cave with soldierfish in it by day is worth returning to at night, when it will be empty of them and holding something else.
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 9 carry a record at each destination. A species usually carries several, so these do not add up to 9.
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