Hanauma Bay, 20 feet

Hanauma Bay, Oahu, 20 feet

Hanauma Bay, Oahu, 35 feet

Fish Hole, Midway Atoll, 30 feet

Hanauma Bay, Oahu, 20 feet

Sea Cave, Oahu, 60 feet

Juvenile, Portlock, Oahu, 20 feet

Honaunau, Hawaii, 50 feet

Red Hill, Hawaii, 50 feet

Ho'okena, Hawaii, 50 feet

Cargo Pier, Midway Atoll, 20 feet

Common on reefs at any depth where it preys upon small fish during the day.  Brown or yellow, sometimes lined with white, reddish-brown at night.  Fine-scaled body vertically flattened, eyes small and round, tail blunt and paddle-like.  Attains 3 feet.  Indo-Pacific & Tropical Eastern Pacific.  Replaced by Aulostomus maculatus in the Tropical Western Atlantic.