Order Ophidiiformes Family Ophidiidae – Cusk eels (?), lings, brotulas Bearded brotula Brotula multibarbata Temminck and Schlegel, 1846 (Indo-Pacific) Family Carapidae - Pearlfishes Fowler's pearlfish Onuxodon fowleri (Smith, 1955) (Indo-Pacific) Family Bythitidae - Cuskeels Slimy cuskeel Brosmophyciops pautzkei Schultz, 1960 (Red Sea to Samoa and north to the Ryukyu Islands) Yellow cuskeel Dinematichthys sp. (Indo-Pacific) Order Batrachoidiformes Family Batrachoididae – Frogfishes, toadfishes Banded toadfish Halophryne diemensis (Lesueur, 1824) (Northern Australia from Shark Bay, Western Australia to Heron Island, Queensland and throughout the Indo-Malayan Archipelago) Order Lophiiformes Family Antennariidae – Anglerfishes Freckled anglerfish Antennarius coccineus (Cuvier in Lesson, 1831) (Indo-Pacific eastward to the Americas) White-finger anglerfish Antennarius nummifer (Cuvier, 1817) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Society Islands, and north to Japan) Painted anglerfish Antennarius pictus (Shaw and Nodder, 1794) (East Africa to the Society and Hawaiian Islands) Striate anglerfish, striped anglerfish Antennarius striatus (Shaw and Nodder 1794) (Tropical Australia south to Wollagong, New South Wales and Geraldton Western Australia) Tuberculated anglerfish Antennarius tuberosus (Cuvier, 1817) (East Africa to Samoa and the Hawaiian Islands) Sargassum fish Histrio histrio (Linnaeus, 1758) (Indo-West Pacific and tropical Atlantic) Order Gobiesociformes Family Gobiesocidae – Clingfishes, shore eels Urchin clingfish Diademichthys lineatus (Sauvage, 1883) (Indo-Pacific) One stripe clingfish Discotrema sp. (Indo-Pacific) Order Beloniformes Family Exocoetidae - Flying fishes Sutton's flying fish Cypselurus suttoni (Whitley and Colefax, 1938) (Central and western Oceania) Family Hemiramphidae - Garfishes, halfbeaks Barred garfish Hemiramphus far (Forsskal, 1775) (East Africa and Red Sea to Samoa) Dussumier's garfish Hyporhamphus dussumieri (Valenciennes, 1846) (Seychelles to the Tuamotu Archipelago) Family Belonidae - Longtoms or needlefishes Flat tailed longtom Platybelone argalus platyura (Bennett, 1832) (Circumtropical) Slender longtom Strongylura leiura (Bleeker, 1851) (East Africa to Fiji) Crocodile longtom Tylosurus crocodilus crocodilus (Peron and Lesueur, 1821) (Tropical Atlantic and Indo-Pacific) Order Atheriniformes Family Atherinidae – Hardyheads, silversides Robust hardyhead Atherinomorus lacunosus (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (Indo-Pacific) Barnes' hardyhead Hypoatherina barnesi Schultz, 1953 (Western Pacific to East Africa) Order Beryciformes Family Monocentridae – Pineapplefishes Australian pineapplefish, knightfish Cleidopus gloriamaris De Vis, 1882 (Shark Bay, Western Australia to Great Australian Bight, Western Australia and Eden, New South Wales to Capricorn Group, Queensland.) (East and west coasts of Australia) Family Holocentridae - Squirrelfishes and soldierfishes Shadowfin soldierfish Myripristis adusta Bleeker, 1851 (Indo-Pacific) Bigscale soldierfish Myripristis berndti Jordan and Evermann, 1903 (Indo-Pacific and tropical eastern Pacific) Yellowfin soldierfish Myripristis chryseres Jordan and Evermann, 1903 (Scattered records from Natal to Hawaii)