Can I get some identification (part 2)?

[KidK9]

Hey all, in the next couple of days I am going to post some of my photography and was hoping you all could identify these with common names and scientific names. I will be making a small presentation next month (not on photography). Thanks so much for your expertise.

 

[archman]

Let's see what I can do straight from my head at 3am. Unfortunately, fish aren't my specialty, so I may bungle some of this junk.

1. Panulirus argus. Florida Spiny Lobster.
2. dang, I suck with sponges.
3. HorseEye Jacks. Caranx hippos I think. Nice shot by the way.
4. Urolophus jamaicensis. Yellow (or Jamaican) stingray
5. Caribbean long-spined urchin. Diadema antillarum. There's also some adult blue chromis (Chromis cyanea), and the little purple things with 'em might be juvenile creole wrasse, or maybe creolefish. I always get them backwards... anyway one of 'em's called Paranthias crucifer... I think.

I'm going to bed now.

 

[maractwin]

The pale purple juvenile fish are most likely creole wrasse, Clepticus parrae.

And the yellow tube sponges are Aplysina fistularis.

 

[TwoBitTxn]

Actually Humann calls it a Caribbean Spiney, but the rest is the same.

I do think this is a yellow tube sponge. Aplysina fistularis due to the coloration. I'd change my call on your last post due to the same reason.

Expanding the ID set a little bit, I think the coral on the right of pic #2 is great Star Coral Montastraea cavernosa the white coral and the whip on the top are gorgonians.

Pic #3 Horse-Eye jack Caranx latus

#4 I agree with archman

#5 The brownish coral is Blade Fire coral Millepora complanata

TwoBit

 

[maractwin]

I don't see any fire coral in the picture with the urchin. That's a lettuce coral just to the left of the urchin. Which one is difficult to tell without a closer picture.

Fire corals generally look smooth from any distance (the tentacles are no more than a couple millimeters long). Whereas the lettuce corals (Agaricia sp.) have ridges and visible polyps in the valleys.

-Mark

 

[TwoBitTxn]

Back to picture #2.

I think that is a sea rod in the fore ground. Humann only goes as far as Family Plexauridae.

 

[archman]

Actually Humann calls it a Caribbean Spiney, but the rest is the same.

That's the other common name.

Expanding the ID set a little bit, I think the coral on the right of pic #2 is great Star Coral Montastraea cavernosa

Corallites are too small. It's one of those newfangled Montastrea annularis strains diifferentiated by growth habit.

#3 Horse-Eye jack Caranx latus

Dang, I got cocky. Friggin' jack crevalle's...