These fishes are usually found in caves, below underhangs, or at night. Red light doesn't penetrate seawater very far, so red fishes appear gray to black without artificial light.
BigeyePriacanthus arenatus
(1: Mary's Place, Roatan / 2-4: CoCo View Wall, Roatan / 5: Anka's Place, Roatan)
Blackbar SoldierfishMyripristis jacobus
(1: CoCo View Resort, Roatan / 2: Osman's Reef, Roatan)
The larger fish is a bluestriped grunt.
Dusky CardinalfishPhaeoptyx pigmentaria
(1-3: CoCo View Resort, Roatan)
Glasseye SnapperHeteropriacanthus cruentatus
(1-2: First Bight, Roatan / 3: Newman's Wall, Roatan)
Glassy SweeperPempheris schomburgkii
(1: Newman's Wall, Roatan / 2-3: Prince Albert, Roatan)
Longspine SquirrelfishHolocentrus rufus
(1-2,5: Newman's Wall, Roatan / 3: John's Place, Roatan / 4: Chimneys, Roatan / 6: Two Tall Two Small, Roatan / 7: CoCo View Resort, Roatan / 8: Mr. Bud, Roatan)
Mimic CardinalfishApogon phenax
(1: CoCo View Wall, Roatan / 2: Newman's Wall, Roatan / 3-5: CoCo View Resort, Roatan)
Reef SquirrelfishSargocentron coruscum
(1: CoCo View Resort, Roatan)
Twospot CardinalfishApogon pseudomaculatus
(1: Prince Albert, Roatan)
Whitestar CardinalfishApogon lachneri
(1: CoCo View Resort, Roatan)
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