Rarities underwater

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This is the only digital image I have of a Caribbean BF, Chaetodon aculeatus.
I will work on the rest if the thread survives !

A sand dweller that might help a tank sand bead. Hemipteronotus splendens, Razor fish.

 

[Luiz Rocha]

Alright, I finally had time to re-scan some of my old slides, so here are some rare ones from Brazil:

Halichoeres brasiliensis

Stegastes rocasensis

Muraena pavonina

 

[kaiserkid]

Luiz you take the most amazing pictures! Thanks for sharing! :thumbsup:

 

[Dejavu]

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[Luiz Rocha]

Thanks for the nomination! Here a couple more rare ones:

Cephalopholis taeniops:

And a really stunning fish, very unusual color, a wrasse, closely related to the Creole Wrasse. Clepticus africanus, his caudal fin filaments are amazing:

 

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Isn't C taeniops from the African Atlantic coast? The more common C. miniata on the Pacific side but also as far a Fiji. Amazing.

 

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But all we got in the Caribbean was C fulva.
We got ripped.

 

[joetbs]

Thanks for the nomination! Here a couple more rare ones:

Cephalopholis taeniops:

post more of the montastrea underneath it :wave:

 

[Luiz Rocha]

post more of the montastrea underneath it :wave:

Only if you vote for us! J/K Here are some more:

And the open polyps at night:

 

[joetbs]

i already voted

nice pics. now just need some of the others in the Gulf if you have any (madracis, porites porites, and favia fragum)

 

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[20reefer]

Wow love the Clepticus africanus, do you have pictures of juveniles?

 

[Luiz Rocha]

Here you go... Juvenile C. africanus:

 

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A small area of Madracis mirabilis

 

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Mont. cavernosa and annularis [I think]

 

[EMT87]

those are great photos.thanks for sharing

 

[20reefer]

Here you go... Juvenile C. africanus:

Nice!! They are very similar to Creole wrasse.

 

[Luiz Rocha]

A couple more from West Africa. First, two corals (same species, I think) for Joe:

A nice moray, Muraena melanotis, this one doesn't grow much, I think the largest I saw was about 20in long:

Chaetodon robustus:

 

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C. robustus. Luiz that is an amazing fish. You can pick out about six different species characteristics, Atlantic and Pacific, all hybridized into one.

 

[Mentat]

...A nice moray, Muraena melanotis, this one doesn't grow much, I think the largest I saw was about 20in long:

Gorgeous moray, looks very close to Muraena retifera.