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Rainbow Cale (Odax acroptilus), male. Found in coastal sea grass and kelp beds in temperate waters of southern Australia. Photo taken in Western Port Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Southern Blue Devil (Paraplesiops meleagris). Found in coastal and off-shore rocky reefs in caves and crevices throughout southern WA, SA and Vic. Photo taken at Mornington Peninsula, Vic, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Magpie Perch (Cheilodactylus nigripes). Found from Albany, Western Australia, to Kiama, New South Wales. Photo taken at Flinders, Western Port, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Blue-throated Wrasse (Notolabrus tetricus), initial phase. Found in south-eastern Australia, from NSW to SA, including Tas. Photo taken at Flinders, Western Port, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Girdled Scalyfin (Parma unifasciata), juvenile. Also known as Girdled Parma. Endemic to coastal reefs from southern Queensland to southern New South Wales, Australia. Photo taken at Bermagui, New South Wales.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Girdled Scalyfin (Parma unifasciata), juvenile. Also known as Girdled Parma. Endemic to coastal reefs from southern Queensland to southern New South Wales, Australia. Photo taken at Bermagui, New South Wales.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Yellow-Crested Weedfish (Cristiceps aurantiacus). Found in rocky reefs, kelp and seagrass beds in temperate waters of Australia. Photo taken in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia.
© Bill Boyle / OceanwideImages.com |
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Red Velvetfish (Gnathanacanthus goetzeei) - juvenile. Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
© Bill Boyle / OceanwideImages.com |
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Red Velvetfish (Gnathanacanthus goetzeei), adult. Found in temperate waters of southern Australia, including Tasmania. Rarely encountered by divers due to its cryptic camouflage. Photo taken in Tasmania, Australia.
© Bill Boyle / OceanwideImages.com |
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Southern Blue Devil (Paraplesiops meleagris). Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
© Bill Boyle / OceanwideImages.com |
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Short Boarfish (Parazanclistius hutchinsi). Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia. Rare species.
© Bill Boyle / OceanwideImages.com |
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Yellow-tail Kingfish (Seriola lalandi). Also known as Yellowtail Amberjack and Great Amberjack. Found in sub-tropical and temperate seas in the Pacific and Indian oceans.
© Chris & Monique Fallows / OceanwideImages.com |
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Red Velvetfish (Gnathanacanthus goetzeei) - juvenile. Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
© Rudie Kuiter / OceanwideImages.com |
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Warty Prowfish (Aetapcus maculatus). Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
© Rudie Kuiter / OceanwideImages.com |
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Barracouta (Thyrsites atun). Also known as 'Couta, Snoek and Sierra. A commercially sought fish found in Southern Australian waters.
© Rudie Kuiter / OceanwideImages.com |
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Pacific Cod (Gadus macrocephalus). Also known as Gray Cod, Gray Goo, Gray Wolf and Grayfish, this fish is an important commercial food species. Photo taken at Madrona Point, Vancouver Island, Canada, Eastern Pacific Ocean.
© Andy Murch / OceanwideImages.com |
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Warty Prowfish (Aetapcus maculatus), pair resting beneath Port Hughes Jetty or Pier, South Australia. This fish species, a member of the Scorpionfish family, and sheds its skin in a manner very similiar to reptiles.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Brushtail Pipefish (Leptoichthys fistularius), swimming close to Sea Grass near Port Hughes Jetty or Pier, South Australia.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Copper Rockfish (Sebastes caurinus), in kelp. Browning Passage, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Copper Rockfish (Sebastes caurinus), in kelp. Browning Passage, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Scalyhead Sculpin (Artedius harringtoni), resting on a bed of strawberry anemones in Campbell River, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Copper Rockfish (Sebastes caurinus). Photo taken at Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus). Photo taken at Browning Passage in Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Silvergray Rockfish (Sebastes brevispinis). Photo taken at Browning Passage, offshore Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Red Irish Lord (Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus), resting on a bed of marine invertebrates. Photo taken at Browning Passage, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Red Irish Lord (Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus), resting on a bed of marine invertebrates. Photo taken at Browning Passage, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Red Irish Lord (Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus), resting on a bed of marine invertebrates. Photo taken at Browning Passage, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Wolf Eel (Anarrhuchthys ocellatus). Photo taken at Browning Passage, Port Hardy, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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China Rockfish (Sebastes neulosus), resting in Sea Anemones. Photo taken at Browning Passage, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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China Rockfish (Sebastes neulosus), resting in Sea Anemones. Photo taken at Browning Passage, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Pacific Halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis). South-east Alaska, USA
© Mark Carwardine / OceanwideImages.com |
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Sandager's Wrasse (Coris sandeyeri). Also known as King Wrasse. Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve, situated off the east coast of North Island, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean.
© Justin Gilligan / OceanwideImages.com |
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Sandager's Wrasse (Coris sandeyeri). Also known as King Wrasse. Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve, situated off the east coast of North Island, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean.
© Justin Gilligan / OceanwideImages.com |
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Sandager's Wrasse (Coris sandeyeri). Also known as King Wrasse. Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve, situated off the east coast of North Island, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean.
© Justin Gilligan / OceanwideImages.com |
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Sandager's Wrasse (Coris sandeyeri). Also known as King Wrasse. Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve, situated off the east coast of North Island, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean.
© Justin Gilligan / OceanwideImages.com |
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Blue Maomao (Scorpis violacea). Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve, situated off the east coast of North Island, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean.
© Justin Gilligan / OceanwideImages.com |
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Blue Maomao (Scorpis violacea). Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve, situated off the east coast of North Island, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean.
© Justin Gilligan / OceanwideImages.com |
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Blue Maomao (Scorpis violacea). Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve, situated off the east coast of North Island, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean.
© Justin Gilligan / OceanwideImages.com |
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Blue Maomao (Scorpis violacea) and a single Snapper (Chrysophrys auratus). Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve, situated off the east coast of North Island, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean.
© Justin Gilligan / OceanwideImages.com |
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Grey Moray (Gymnothorax nubilus). Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve, situated off the east coast of North Island, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean.
© Justin Gilligan / OceanwideImages.com |
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Red Pigfish (Bodianus unimaculatus). Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve, situated off the east coast of North Island, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean.
© Justin Gilligan / OceanwideImages.com |
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Red Pigfish (Bodianus unimaculatus). Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve, situated off the east coast of North Island, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean.
© Justin Gilligan / OceanwideImages.com |
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Marbled Rockcod (Notothenia rossii). This fish is found in Antarctica and copes with the icy waters by means of a biological antifreeze in it's body fluids. Antarctica .
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Garibaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus), in Kelp Forest (Macrocystis pyrifera). This is the state fish of California. Photo taken off Catalina Island, California, USA.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Garibaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus), in Kelp Forest (Macrocystis pyrifera). This is the state fish of California. Photo taken off Catalina Island, California, USA.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Giant Black Sea Bass (Stereolepis gigas). Photo taken off Catalina Island, California, USA. East Pacific Ocean.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Giant Black Sea Bass (Stereolepis gigas). Photo taken off Catalina Island, California, USA. East Pacific Ocean.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Polka-dot Batfish (Ogcocephalus radiatus). Photo taken off Florida, USA.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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