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Green Sea Turtle. It's in an artificial reef constructed from old truck tires.
Harlequin Swimming Crab, about 1 inch wide.
Harlequin Swimming Crab. Small crab, BIG attitude.
White Spotted Hermit Crab.
Decorator Crab that's just molted its outer shell and "decoration". About 1 inch wide. See next
photo.
Decorator Crab, this one has the typical bits and pieces camouflage it attaches to itself.
Blunt Decorator Crab. About 2 inches wide, covered with different corals, tunicates, algae.
Jellyfish Carry Crab. This "decorator" just holds onto a jellyfish with specially adapted rear legs.
Jellyfish Carry Crab. ABout 2 inches.
Soft Coral Crab. Maybe 1/2 inch wide.
Arrowhead Crab. This is another decorator, it has a piece of seaweed on its head.
Arrowhead Crab with seaweed toupee. Maybe 1 inch.
Arrowhead Crabs mating. The green one with the seaweed toupee is the male (figures).
Sea Hare. A shell less mollusk, about 1-1/2 inches long.
Sea Hare. Related to Nudibranchs (next photo) but no exposed gills.
Nudibranch. Latin for "naked gill". See the exposed feathery gills to the left. 1 inch.
Nudibranch. There are thousands of species and when a new, 40,000 page book is published, it
will identify maybe 20% of them.
Nudibranch. This one has a hitchhiker, a tiny Emperor Shrimp living on it. The shrimp is 1/4 inch
long.
Shrimps, less than 1/4 inch. Living on sea star.
Squat Anemone Shrimp. About 1/2 inch,
Harlequin Shrimp. They have claws like chisels to carve off "legs" from starfish. That's what they
eat.
Harlequin Shrimp, the male is is the small blue one. The big female is 1-1/4".
Crinoid Shrimp, less than 1/2 inch.
Crinoid Shrimp. They live in crinoids and usually match the color like this one.
Crinoid Shrimp, maybe 3/8 inch.
Skeleton Shrimp, Amphipod. Maybe 1/2" long,
Skeleton Shrimp, Amphipod.
Skeleton Shrimp, Amphipod. Even tinier juveniles on parent.
Skeleton Shrimp, Amphipod.
Skeleton Shrimp, Amphipod.
Amphipod relative. This one builds tubes to live in.
Amphipod relative in tube. The tube is the diameter of a stirring straw, less than 1/10 inch.
Amphipod, brawling like the Skeleton Shrimp.
Amphipod.Get away from my tube....
Mimic Octopus, maybe 6". They can grow to several feet.
Probable Dwarf Cuttlefish, colors are variable. 4 inches.
Cuttlefish, 2 inches. See next picture for color change.
Exactly the same Cuttlefish, seconds later. They change color to communicate. See prior picture.
Flamboyant Cuttlefish, maybe 3 inches long.
Flamboyant Cuttlefish. Do not swim like other cuttlefish, bottom dwellers.
Flamboyant Cuttlefish, mating and messing with each other.
The larger female is at the left, the two males are competing.
Flamboyant Cuttlefish. Males are to the left.
Flamboyant Cuttlefish, each of the males is making sure the other male can't get to the female
Flamboyant Cuttlefish, female (right) pretty unimpressed by her suitors.
Hairy Shrimp. It's the size of a match head, about 1/8 inch. REALLY small.
Hairy Shrimp. I have been after a decent shot of these for years. Look at the sand grains for
scale of size.
Look close, she is carrying eggs under her tail. And that's an Amphipod photobomb to the right.
Philippines Dumaguete 2015, Creatures
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St Vincent, 2009
Red Sea, Egypt 2009
Galapagos Underwater
Galapagos Land
Machias Seal Island, Maine. June 2010 and May 2019
St Kitts and Saba, August 2010
Philippines, Puerto Galera January 2011 Fish.
Philippines, Puerto Galera January 2011 Creatures
Fiji, May 2011. Beqa Reefs
Bali, Indonesia 2012. Fish.
Bali, Indonesia 2012. Behaviors and critters.
Bali, Indonesia 2012. Nudibranchs.
Blue Heron Bridge, Riviera Beach, Florida.
North Sulawesi 2013. Pipefish and Seahorses
North Sulawesi 2013. Fish
North Sulawesi 2013. Mostly Nudibranchs
North Sulawesi 2013. Crabs and Critters
North Sulawesi 2013. Cuttlefish and Octopus
Blue Heron Bridge, May 2013
Komodo, Indonesia. August 2014 and 2019 daytime
Komodo, Indonesia. August 2014, night dives
Philippines, Dumaguete 2015 Fish
Philippines Dumaguete 2015, Creatures and Critters
Dominica 2015 and 2017. Before Hurricane Maria
Raja Ampat, January 2016
Cayman Islands, October 2016
North Sulawesi 2017. Fish
North Sulawesi 2017, Creatures
Anilao, Philippines 2017. Fish
Anilao, Philippines 2017. Eels, Pipefish
Anilao, Philippines 2017. Crabs, shrimp, octopus.
Anilao, Philippines 2017. Nudibranchs.
Triton Bay, Indonesia. 2018
Villa Markisa, Tulamben. Bali, 2018. Fish and Creatures.
Villa Markisa, Tulamben. Bali, 2018. Nudibranchs.
Solomon Islands, April 2019
Siladen Resort. Siladen Island, Indonesia 2020
Coral Triangle. Things with stings.
Coral Triangle. Frogfish.
Coral Triangle. Crabs & Shrimp.
Coral Triangle. Cuttlefish, Octopi and Squid.
Coral Triangle Butterfly and Angelfish
Belize, October 2021.