The top fish illustrated is a grouper. The blue spots indicate that it is probably a
coney, Epinephelus or Cephalopholis fulvus. The fish has three distinct colour
phases. One of them is bright yellow. In each colour phase the coney retains a few
blue spots and two black spots on its lower lip and the upper part of the tail. The
coney has 9 dorsal spines although the illustration shows 15. The coney is known as
butterfish in Jamaica because of its sweet taste. The coney grows to a length of 1
foot. It lives in the tropical seas of the Bahamas and the Caribbean.

The lower fish illustrated is a cottonwick grunt, Haemulon melanurum. It has a
distinctive black band that runs along the top of its back and onto its tail. It grows to
just over 1 foot in length. It lives in the tropical waters of the Bahamas, Bermuda,
Florida and the Caribbean sea.

(Fish notes by Richard Lord, Guernsey)