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Twelve Red Sea fish you will almost certainly see

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Anorya Team · 24 juil. 2026 · 1 min read

Learn these dozen and you will recognise most of what swims past you on a first snorkelling trip.

The Red Sea has something like a thousand fish species, but a first-time snorkeller meets the same dozen over and over. Knowing their names turns a blur of colour into something you can actually follow.

Twelve Red Sea fish you will almost certainly see

The ones you cannot miss

Sergeant majors are the small black-and-yellow striped fish that mob the boat the moment anyone gets in. Parrotfish are the big blunt-headed ones you can hear crunching coral — that grinding noise underwater is them. Butterflyfish move in pairs and stay paired for years. Blue-spotted stingrays sit half-buried in sand patches between coral heads.

The ones worth looking for

Napoleon wrasse are the giants, up to two metres, with a bulging forehead and a habit of following divers. Lionfish hang motionless under overhangs with their fins spread — beautiful and venomous, so admire from a distance. Clownfish live in anemones, exactly as advertised, and defend them fiercely against anything that comes close.

Twelve Red Sea fish you will almost certainly seeTwelve Red Sea fish you will almost certainly see

The Red Sea has something like a thousand fish species, but a first-time snorkeller meets the same dozen over and over.

A word on the moray eel: it looks alarming with its mouth opening and closing, but that is simply how it breathes. It has no interest in you at all unless you put a hand into its hole.

Twelve Red Sea fish you will almost certainly see
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