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Top 10 Saltwater Aquarium Fishes

Seaunseen
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Cuttlefish using its arms as lures

Cuttlefish using its arms as lures

Alan Sutton
45
no Limits freediving scuba diving dahab

In Pictures: No-Limits Diving with William Winram

Renee Blundon
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freediving scuba diving

In Pictures: Freedivers Training at the Blue Hole

Renee Blundon
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Free Immersion

Free-Immersion Freefall: A Poem

Renee Blundon
507
Freedive Freefall 1

Freedive Freefall in Blue Hole

Renee Blundon
130
Unicorn Shrimp in the genus Plesionika

Unicorn Shrimp- Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
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The Unicorn Shrimp (Genus Plesionika) are also known as the Narwhal Shrimp.  They obtain their name from the proportionally very long rostrum spine  extending out quite far from the carapace. The rostrum ha...
White-Mouth Moray eel (Gymnothorax Meleagris)

Unusual Moray Eel

Alan Sutton
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While diving on Octopus Reef off Dar es Salaam, Tanzania I noticed a strange looking Unusual Moray Eel with its head protruding from a hole. It seemed unlike any other Moray Eel that I had seen before. ...
Halloween Hermit Crab (Ciliopagurus strigatus) is also known as Cone Shell Hermit Crab, the Striped Hermit Crab and the Orange Legged Hermit Crab

Halloween Hermit Crab- Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
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The Halloween Hermit Crab (Ciliopagurus strigatus) is also known as the Cone Shell Hermit Crab, the Striped Hermit Crab and the Orange Legged Hermit Crab.  They are one of the more colourful smaller hermit ...
Blackflap Blenny (Cirripectes auritus) also known as the Eared Blenny

Blackflap Blenny – Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
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The Blackflap Blenny (Cirripectes auritus) also known as the Eared Blenny and the Black-eared Eyelash Blenny. They are combtooth blennies that make their home in holes, usually in corals and sponges.  ...
Mozambique Blenny (Meiacanthus mossambicus) is also known as the Harptail Blenny

Mozambique Blenny – Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
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The Mozambique Blenny (Meiacanthus mossambicus) is also known as the Harptail Blenny. Blennies in the Meiacanthus Genus have grooved canine teeth with poison sacks that allow them to inject poison into thei...

False Cleanerfish – Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
956
The False Cleanerfish (Aspidontus tractus) mimics the Blue Streak Cleaner Wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus)pictured below across each stage of its life. False Cleanerfish are fangblennies and the name originate...
Piano Fangblenny (Plagiotremus tapeinosoma) is also known as the Hit and Run Blenny, Mimic Blenny and Scale-eating Fangblenny

Piano Fangblenny – Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
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The Piano Fangblenny (Plagiotremus tapeinosoma) is also known as the Hit and Run Blenny, Mimic Blenny and Scale-eating Fangblenny. They obtain their name from the black and brown striped pattern running dow...
Goniobranchus geminus previously known as Chromodoris geminus also known as the Gem Nudibranch

Goniobranchus geminus-Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
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Goniobranchus geminus was previously known as Chromodoris geminus until a DNA study proved otherwise. They are commonly known as the Gem Nudibranch. They are dorid nudibranch's. As with other nudibranchs, t...

Decorator Crab- Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
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Decorator crabs belong to the superfamily Majoidea and are also commonly known as Spider Crabs.  They obtain their name from their habit of decorating their bodies with various plants and animals. This can ...
Marine Flatworms in the Turbellaria sub division of Platyhelminthes

Marine Flatworms-Facts-Photographs and Video

Alan Sutton
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Marine Platyhelminthes or Marine Flatworms as they are commonly known are often extremely colorful creatures. The brightly colored species are easy to spot while diving and if one is lucky, one can see them...
Sea Urchin

Sea Urchin Spines- How to deal with them

Alan Sutton
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Urchins can be quite attractive looking as can be seen in the images but they are prickly and many have poisons on their spines. Whether one is diving or involved in other recreational activities around the...
Crescent Tail Bigeye Priacanthus hamrur, is also known as the lunar-tailed bigeye, goggle eye, or moontail bulls eye

Crescent Tail Bigeye – Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
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The Crescent Tail Bigeye Priacanthus hamrur, is also known as the Lunar-tailed bigeye, Goggle eye, or Moontail bulls eye.  As can be seen in the images they obtain their name from their large eye and their cr...
Divided Leopard Wrasse (Macropharyngodon bipartitus) also known as Vermiculate Leopard Wrasse, African Leopard Wrasse.

Divided Leopard Wrasse- Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
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  The Divided Leopard Wrasse (Macropharyngodon bipartitus) is also known as the Vermiculate Leopard Wrasse, African Leopard Wrasse or simply the Divided Wrasse. They are fairly common in Tanzanian w...
Paddle-flap scorpionfish or Eschmeyer's scorpionfish Rhinopias eschmeyeri

Paddle-flap Scorpionfish- Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
563
The Paddle-flap scorpionfish, Popeyed Scorpionfish or Eschmeyer's scorpionfish, Rhinopias eschmeyeri is a very unusual looking fish. They have a very distinctive set of paddles or flaps above the eyes from ...
Durban Dancing Shrimp - Rhynchocinetes durbanensis

Durban Dancing Shrimp- Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
653
The Durban Dancing Shrimp (Rhynchocinetes durbanensis) is also known as the camel shrimp, camelback shrimp, candy shrimp and the hingebeak prawn.  They obtain the dancing part of their  name from the sidewa...