Reef or Variegated Lizardfish, Synodus variegatus

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Updated 6/28/2016

Family Synodontidae

INDO-PACIFIC / HAWAII

Synodus variegatus

Ke'ei, Hawai'i, 40 feet	Pupukea, O'ahu, 40 feet

Kewalo Pipe, O'ahu, 50 feet
Puako, Hawai'i, 40 feet	Hale'iwa Trench, O'ahu, 50 feet


Sea Cave, O'ahu, 50 feet	Sunabe, Okinawa, 50 feet
Sunabe, Okinawa, 30 feet

REEF or VARIEGATED LIZARDFISH

Commonly seen as pairs on rocky reefs in clear water at scuba depths. White with five reddish saddles and a lateral stripe of dark blotches, head of large fish yellowish-green. Attains 10 inches. Red Sea to Japan, Hawai'i, and French Polynesia.