yellow goatfish
mulloidichthys martinicus latin

Yellow goatfish, Mulloidichthys martinicus .

Yellow goatfish, blue tang and damselfish are among the sights seen by snorkelers paddling in the resort's limpid offshore waters.

Yellow goatfish are tireless benthic feeders, using a pair of long chemosensory barbels ("whiskers") protruding from their chins to rifle through the sediments in search of a meal.

The Yellow Goatfish can be found in the tropical waters around the United States, in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and around Cape Verde.

FORTY-FIVE FEET UNDER the Atlantic, schools of striped yellow goatfish scoot away from us in uncanny synchronicity.

Black-banded sea kraits, numbering in their hundreds, form hunting alliances with yellow goatfish and bluefin trevally, flushing potential prey from narrow crannies in a reef the same way some moray eels do.

Porkfish, stoplight parrotfish, yellow goatfish, trumpet fish, a crazy-looking scrawled cowfish - I scribbled my first fish list in the back of Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things."

The yellow goatfish (Mulloidichthys martinicus), also known as yellowsaddle or goldsaddle goatfish (Parupeneus cyclostomus), is a white to pale pink fish with a yellow stripe from the eye to the caudal peduncle.

Among them were the French angel-fish, angelically shaped indeed and with a yellow dab on every scale; the fairy basslet, two inches long, half indigo, half orange, divided laterally halfway along the body; and the yellow goatfish, maybe a foot long, their bodies striped like shirts but outlined all around by an ethereal yellow fringe.