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Convict surgeons are found on shallow inshore reefs, in rock pools and around sheltered wharfs and jetties where seaweeds and algae are plentiful. 

Sea goldies live in and around coral reefs in warm tropical oceans. These beautiful little fish are often seen in large shoals and add splashes of colour to the reef.

Emperor angelfish are large reef fish, with compressed bodies and a multitude of yellow and blue horizontal stripes along their sides. 

Zebra moray eels live on reefs in warm tropical oceans.

Floral moray eels live in the Indo-West Pacific, the Red Sea and the Western Indian Ocean from Oman to East London. 

Geometric moray eels are found on coral reefs in the Red Sea and the Western Indian Ocean, south of the Eastern Cape. 

Mudskippers belong to the Goby family – a comparatively recent group of fishes, which first appeared in the fossil record some 58-37 million years ago.

Shrimpfish, also known as razorfish (Aeoliscus punctulatus) are found in the Red Sea and off the east coast of Africa from Kenya south to Algoa Bay.

Slender snipefish are distantly related to seahorses and pipefishes. These fish live at depths between 25 and 600m in large shoals. 

Tristan five fingers are found only around oceanic islands and seamounts in the south Atlantic- and south Indian Oceans. 

Small, silver and scaleless with a trunk-like snout - there is no denying that St Joseph sharks are unusual-looking fish. Their heads are large and they only have a single gill opening on each side.

Found only in southern Africa from central Angola to St Lucia and possibly as far north as Maputo.