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Lionfish Make Love to the Camera

Renee Blundon
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ionfish are unquestionably one of the most photogenic fish in the sea, with an eccentric, gaudy profile, elaborate, vibrant stripes...
Spider Decorator Crab (Camposcia retusa) with flip flops

Spider Decorator Crab with Flip Flops

Alan Sutton
Facts
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he Spider Decorator Crab (Camposcia retusa) is also known as the Blunt Decorator Crab, the Velcro Crab and the Tarantula Crab. They camouflage  themselves by placing pieces of organic matter from their immediate environment on themselves and generally unless they...
Crinoid Squat Lobster (Allogalathea elegans) is also known as the Feather Star Squat lobster or the Elegant Squat Lobster

Crinoid Squat Lobster-Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
Facts
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he Crinoid Squat Lobster (Allogalathea elegans) is also known as the Feather Star Squat lobster or the Elegant Squat Lobster. Although they are called squat lobsters they are more closely related to Hermit Crabs than Lobsters. They are also a...
Shortfin Scorpionfish, Scorpaenodes parvipinnis also known as the Lowfin Scorpionfish

Blotchfin Scorpionfish- Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
Facts
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he Blotchfin Scorpionfish, Scorpaenodes varipinnis   is another of the smaller scorpionfish. Because many of the blotch on the dorsal fin, they are easy to identify. They are quite common at night on the reef and rubble in the shallower waters...
Broad-banded Pipefish (Dunckerocampus boylei)

Broad-banded Pipefish – Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
Facts
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he Broad-banded Pipefish (Dunckerocampus boylei) has not been seen in Tanzanian waters to our knowledge before the sighting of this pair off Dar es Salaam in January 2023, almost certainly because they live in small caves that are quite deep....
Red Reef Lobster (Enoplometopus occidentalis)

Red Reef Lobster- Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
Facts
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he Red Reef Lobster (Enoplometopus occidentalis) is also known as the hairy reef lobster. They are  only active at night and during the day they are almost never seen. They were first described by J.W. Randall in 1840 as Nephrops...
Banded Reef Goby (Priolepis cincta) is also known as the Banded Goby and the Convict Goby

Banded Reef Goby

Alan Sutton
Facts
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he Banded Reef Goby (Priolepis cincta) is also known as the Banded Goby, Girdled Goby and the Convict Goby . These are fairly common fish in Tanzania, but unless one looks for them one is unlikely to see them. The...
Ring-cheek slender wrasse Pseudojuloides argyreogaster

Ring-cheek slender wrasse- Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
Facts
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he Ring-cheek slender wrasse, Pseudojuloides argyreogaster is generally a very rare fish in Tanzanian waters and is notoriously difficult to approach.  Only in some areas are they common. They were first described by Gunther in 1867 with the holotype being...
Male Triplespot wrasse (Halichoeres trispilus) is also known as the  White wrasse.

Triplespot wrasse- Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
Facts
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he Triplespot wrasse (Halichoeres trispilus) is also known as the  White wrasse. They are rarely seen in Tanzania and we have only seen them in one small cave on a wall at some 28 to 32 meters ( tide dependent). ...