Pemba Island critters

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tracydr

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I was going through some old pictures that I took from my Pemba Island, Africa trip. I found a few pictures with fish that I don't recognize. Wondering if anybody can identify them?
i found the complete lack of color and silver eyes intriguing.
 

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I was going through some old pictures that I took from my Pemba Island, Africa trip. I found a few pictures with fish that I don't recognize. Wondering if anybody can identify them?
i found the complete lack of color and silver eyes intriguing.
Any thoughts about this one,yet?
 
Here's an torpedo,electric ray, from the Indo-Pacific. I did not take this picture.
 

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Your first photo is of some kind of sweetlips I think. The steep head profile is typical. Lack of colour is indicative of Diagramma pictum, the Painted Sweetlips, sometimes called Silver Sweetlips.
The second last photo of the red fish under the coral is a squirrelfish. Possibly Sargocentron diadema, the Crown Squirrelfish or it could be S. caudimaculatum, the Silverspot Squirrelfish. Of the two I favour the former due to the limited area of white on the rear body.
All this has to be somewhat speculative as closer views are necessary for more definite ID
Type the Latin names into Google and see what you find. www.Fishbase.us is a great source to try
Best of luck
 

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