The top one is actually a Yellowsnout Seabream Dentex carpenteri. It was only described as a new species last year. It has the distinctive yellow snout that distinguishes it from the very similar Yellowback Bream Dentex spariformis. I think many of the small bream are commonly called pan snapper, but the true Frypan Bream is Argyrops spinifer and it also looks similar but has long dorsal fin filaments.
Agree with the second one being Lined Javelin Fish Hapalogenys kishinouyei
Walfootrot
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Top one is what we call a
Top one is what we call a pan snapper, good eating only grow to about 400mm
More drum lines, kill the bloody sharks!
Kyle Evill
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Bottom ones a Lined Javelin
Bottom ones a Lined Javelin Fish Hapalogenys kishinouyei
Glenn Moore
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Yellowsnout Seabream
The top one is actually a Yellowsnout Seabream Dentex carpenteri. It was only described as a new species last year. It has the distinctive yellow snout that distinguishes it from the very similar Yellowback Bream Dentex spariformis. I think many of the small bream are commonly called pan snapper, but the true Frypan Bream is Argyrops spinifer and it also looks similar but has long dorsal fin filaments.
Agree with the second one being Lined Javelin Fish Hapalogenys kishinouyei
Glenn Moore
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meglodon
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There we go ID solved
Thanks Glenn