capensis) Family: Echeneidae – remoras Shark remora, Echineis naucrates Linnaeus, 1758 (Namibia to Mozambique) (all warm waters except eastern Pacific) Whale remora, Remora australis (Bennett, 1840) (Worldwide, pelagic: found only on cetaceans) Spearfish remora, Remora brachyptera (Lowe, 1839) (Worldwide, prefers billfishes) Remora, Remora remora (Linnaeus, 1758) (Worldwide, prefers sharks) White remora, Remorina albescens (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845) (Worldwide, prefers Manta rays) Family: Emmelichthyidae – rovers Southern rover, Emmelichthys nitidus nitidus Richardson 1845 (occasionally take off western Cape coast) Family: Epigonidae – cardinal fishes (see also Apogonidae) Pencil cardinal, Epigonus denticulatus Dieuzeide, 1950 (Walvis Bay to Cape Point) Epigonus pandionus (Goode & Bean, 1881) (Gulf of Guinea to Agulhas Bank) Epigonus robustus (Barnard, 1927) (off west coast of South Africa) Telescope cardinal, Epigonus telescopus (Risso, 1810) (Walvis Bay to Cape Town) Family: Haemulidae – rubberlips and grunters Spotted grunter, Pomadasys commersonnii (Lacepède, 1801) (False Bay to India) Family: Kyphosidae – sea chubs Grey chub, Kyphosus bigibbus Lacepède, 1801 (Red Sea to Cape Point) Stonebream, Neoscorpis lithophilus (Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908) (False Bay to southern Mozambique) Family: Malacanthidae – tilefishes Forktail tilefish, Hoplolatilus fronticinctus (Günther, 1887) (Postlarvae collected off Cape Peninsula; India and Western Pacific) Family: Monodactylidae – moonies Cape moony, Monodactylus falciformis Lacepède, 1801 (Red Sea to False Bay) Family: Oplegnathidae – knifejaws Cape knifejaw, Oplegnathus conwayi Richardson, 1840 (False Bay to Durban) Family: Parascorpididae – jutjaw Jutjaw, Parascorpis typus Bleeker, 1875 (Known only from False Bay to Maputo) Family: Pentacerotidae – armourheads Cape armourhead, Pentaceros capensis Cuvier, 1829 (Port Nolloth to Southern Mozambique) Pelagic armourhead, Pseudopentaceros (Smith, 1844) (Cape Town to Natal) Family: Polyprionidae – wreckfishes Wreckfish, Polyprion americanus (Schneider, 1801) (Norway to South Africa) Family: Pomatomidae – elf Elf or shad, Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus, 1766)(Namibia to Maputo) Family: Pseudochromidae – dottybacks Subfamily: Congrogadinae – snakelets Snakelet, Halidesmus scapularis Günther, 1872 (Cape Columbine to Transkei)(False Bay to Coffee Bay) Family: Rachycentridae – cobia Prodigal son, Rachycentron canadum (Linnaeus, 1766) (Warm waters of the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific, occasionally reaching False Bay) Family: Sciaenidae – kobs Kob, giant kob or kabeljou, Argyrosomus japonicus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843) (Namibia to Natal) previously misidentified as Argyrosomus hololepidotus (Lacepède, 1801) Geelbek, Atractoscion aequidens (Cuvier, 1830) (Angola to northern KwaZulu-Natal) Baardman or belman, Umbrina canariensis Valenciennes, 1843 (Morocco to the Cape of Good Hope through to Pakistan) Family: Scombropidae – gnomefishes Gnomefish, Scombrops boops (Houttuyn, 1782) (Cape of Good Hope to Delagoa Bay) Family: Serranidae –