closed captions

Description

Groupers and big fishes. Part 10 of my DVD, "Reef Life of the Andaman", available at http://www.bubblevision.com/marine-life-DVD.htm This episode features groupers and the most common species of big bony fish to be found in the Andaman Sea. After an introduction to 2 small and common members of the grouper family, the blacktip grouper, Epinephelus fasciatus, and longfin grouper, Epinephelus quoyanus, we meet the 2 biggest species, the brown-marbled grouper, Epinephelus fuscoguttatus, at Richelieu Rock in Thailand, and a friendly potato cod, Epinephelus tukula, at the Burma Banks in Myanmar. At the Similan Islands we then encounter the largest wrasse, the humphead wrasse, Cheilinus undulatus, sometimes known as the Napoleon wrasse, and the impressive green humphead parrotfish (bumphead parrotfish), Bolbometopon muricatum. We then take a look at the great barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda, in Burma and three different species of trevally, or jacks: The giant trevally, Caranx ignobilis, the golden trevally, Gnathanodon speciosus, and the bluefin trevally, Caranx melampygus. There will be footage of more species of barracuda and trevally in a later episode about schooling fish. The full narration is available as English, German or Spanish subtitles by turning on the closed captions (CC). There are also closed captions available showing scientific and common names of the fishes in English, German or Dutch, along with dive site names. Thanks to Mark Ellison for the 1st music track, "Tai Long Wan" and 3rd music track, "Andaman Resonance". Thanks to Smashed Toy (http://www.soundclick.com/smashedtoy) for the 2nd music track, "Space Frigate". Thanks to Santana Diving of Phuket (http://www.santanaphuket.com), to Elfi and Uli Erfort for help with the German translation and to Frank Nelissen for the Dutch subtitles. Full list of fish species and dive sites featured in this video: 00:00 Oriental Sweetlips, Plectorhinchus vittatus, Christmas Point 00:06 Blacktip Grouper, Epinephelus fasciatus, Racha Noi 00:17 Longfin Grouper, Epinephelus quoyanus, Moving Wall 00:27 Longfin Grouper, Epinephelus quoyanus, Shark Cave 00:33 Brown-Marbled Grouper, Epinephelus fuscoguttatus, Richelieu Rock 01:25 Potato Cod, Epinephelus tukula, Silvertip Bank 02:25 Humphead Wrasse, Cheilinus undulatus, Rocky Point 02:35 Humphead Wrasse, Cheilinus undulatus, Christmas Point 02:43 Humphead Wrasse, Cheilinus undulatus, Shark Fin Reef 02:52 Green Humphead Parrotfish, Bolbometopon muricatum, Shark Fin Reef 03:39 Great Barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda, Black Rock 03:45 Great Barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda, Silvertip Bank 04:38 Giant Trevally, Caranx ignobilis, Koh Tachai 04:52 Golden Trevally, Gnathanodon speciosus, Koh Tachai 04:57 Bluefin Trevally, Caranx melampygus, Rocky Point 05:13 Golden Trevally, Gnathanodon speciosus, Richelieu Rock 05:22 Blackspotted Puffer, Arothron nigropunctatus, Marita's Rock, Racha Noi