Rarities underwater

Wow,

the beauty of our oceans is simply overwhelming.

Now I really, really like to learn how to scuba dive :)

Thanks a lot Luiz this thread really made my day :)

Greetings
Mathias
 
YKTea said:
Meiacanthus nigrolineatus.

and a beautiful specimen at that!
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You got it! This one is hard to ID, want to take a guess?

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Luiz Rocha said:
You got it! This one is hard to ID, want to take a guess?

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This is a hard one! I always have problems identifying this complex. It could be yaeyamensis or nalolo or minutus? They never look like that in the aquarium! Wild ones are so beautiful.
 
Hi guys, so today was my first day of diving in the Philippines with collaborators from the University of Hawaii and the Bishop Museum, including Richard Pyle. Here are a couple of shots from our first (shallow) dive:

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Luiz Rocha said:
Hi guys, so today was my first day of diving in the Philippines with collaborators from the University of Hawaii and the Bishop Museum, including Richard Pyle. Here are a couple of shots from our first (shallow) dive:

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i've been eagerly waiting for updates on this expedition. i'm sure we're going to be seeing a lot of super cool new species once you hit the deeper waters.

beautiful Coradion chrysozonus!

Phillipines is a fantastic place with tons of fishes i'd love to see wild pics of. i saw on the academy of science page you were photographing a suspected new genicanthus species? can't wait to see what that turns out to be.
 
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Luiz Rocha said:
Here a few more, the first two from the Red Sea and the last from Socotra.
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Really OT i know, but did you get any plant pics from Socotra? Or better yet any pics from freshwater habitats?

For any one who doesn't know the islands google them. If your in to biology and/or botany you will fall in love :D
 
I'm truly looking forward to seeing more photos from this expedition and a new Genicanthus would be the icing on the cake!!
 
I'm guessing P. charlenae.

but looks a little like P. lunulatus as well. more confident with the former guess
 
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Luiz Rocha said:
That is one great looking hybrid... P. imperator and P. chrysurus overlap along the Indian Ocean coast of Africa, and the species that I posted above are from the Atlantic coast of Africa. But I did some diving in the Seychelles not long ago and all I saw was "normal" fish...

Now, these odd lines in the hybrid you showed reminded me of a really odd looking Acanthurus lineatus that I saw in Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) last year:

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This guy doesn't look like a hybrid, just something really odd, maybe a genetic defect.
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I love this fish. wish I could keep one alive in my tank. Never had any luck with them
 
auem said:
Have you spotted the new genicanthus....?
is it totally new or a variant of known species with distinct genetic traits..?
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i heard the genicanthus was not new? luiz can you confirm?

i do know brian had a new plectranthias species, and caught some really cool fish like Chromis alpha.
 
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