Mucky Secrets - A video to share about Lembeh Strait marine creatures

[ocram]

Watched it today. Very good work!! Incredible pictures and and very informative, too! Thanks

 

[rbla51]

love these types of videos. Thank you

 

[JoelA7]

Great

 

[whiteshark]

Amazing video! Great work! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Nick Hope]

Thank you everyone!

I spent a few years discussing the subject of which Rhinopias I was photographing at Lembeh. I was eventually convinced that the one I was seeing in Lembeh was Rhinopias eschmeyeri. I also photographed many Rhinopias in Milne Bay Papua New Guinea, the vast majority of which were R. Apanes; there were two in that location that I thought were R. frondosa. I am still not convinced one way or the other. To be convinced I would have to see two side by side that were at the same level of maturity. I seemed to find the ones at Lembeh around 60 feet, usually at Nudi Falls.

On my trips there from 2006-2007 mine were all at Aer Perang and shallower than 60 feet. Hopefully someone will eventually do some DNA testing and clear up the ID confusion. I understand that is being done with frogfishes, which can be even more confusing.