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School of Mangrove Snapper (Lutjanus griseus) in the Three Sisters Spring, Crystal River, Florida, USA. This marine fish can survive in the spring's freshwater.
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School of Glass-eye Snapper (Heteropriacanthus cruentatus). Also known as Big-eye Snapper and Duskyfin Bigeye. Found throughout Indo-C. Pacific, including Great Barrier Reef. Photo taken Palm Beach, Florida, USA
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Common Snook (Centropomus undecimalis) schooling during a cold front in Homosassa Springs, Florida, USA
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Big-eye Trevally (Caranx sexfasciatus). Found throughout Indo Pacific. Photo taken in Komodo National Park Indonesia.
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School of Ribbon Sweetlips (Plectorhynchus polytaenia). Also known Striped and Yellow-ribbon Sweetlips. Found throughout Indo Pacific. This photo was taken in Komodo National Park, Indonesia, where over 1,000 types of fish occur.
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School of Striped Sweetlips (Plectorhynchus polytaenia). Also known Striped and Yellow-ribbon Sweetlips. Found throughout Indo Pacific. This photo was taken in Komodo National Park, Indonesia, where over 1,000 types of fish occur.
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School of Diagonal-banded Sweetlips (Plectorhinchus lineatus) and Oriental Sweetlips (Plectorhinchus vittatus). Found throughout Indo Pacific. This photo was taken in Komodo National Park, Indonesia, where over 1,000 types of fish occur.
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Glassy Sweepers (Dmpheris schomburgki) gather outside a defunct sewage pipe offshore Palm Beach, Florida, USA. Sewage remains a problem in Palm Beach County Reefs, with coastal utilities denying their sewage outfalls damage local marine life.
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Amberjack (Seriola dumerili), schooling juveniles. This fast swimming pelagic fish is excellent eating and commercially fished. It is found throughout the Alantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.
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School of Spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber). Photo taken in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
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Schooling Horse-Eye Jack (Caranx latus). Also known as Big-eye Jack. Photo taken at Belize Central America
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Schooling Cubera Snapper (Lutjanus cyanopterus). Photo taken at Belize, Central America. Listed as vulnerable in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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French Grunts (Haemulon flavolineatum), schooling on the Sugar Wreck in the Northern Bahamas, USA.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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French Grunts (Haemulon flavolineatum), schooling on the Sugar Wreck in the Northern Bahamas, USA.
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Coral Reef in Palm Beach, Florida with an assortment of invertebrates and fish species, including Cottonwicks (Haemulon melanurum). The reefs in the southeast coast of Florida, USA, are among the richest in the western Atlantic.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Scaled Sardine (Harengula Jaguana), schooling in the Palm Beach Inlet, Florida, USA.
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Blue Runners (Caranx crysos), attacking a baitball of Cigar Minnows (Decapterus punctatus), on a deep shipwreck offshore Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Schooling Porkfish (Anisotremus virginicus). Photo taken off Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
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Reef scene comprising a rich variety of fish and invertebrate marine life, including Cottonwicks (Haemulon melanurum) and a single Squirrelfish sheltering amongst sea sponges. Juno Beach, Florida, USA.
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Reef scene comprising a rich variety of fish and invertebrate marine life, including Cottonwicks (Haemulon melanurum) and a single Squirrelfish sheltering amongst sea sponges. Juno Beach, Florida, USA.
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Common Snook (Centropomus undecimalis). Native to the waters of the western Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. Photo taken around the pilings of a bridge in the Lake Worth Lagoon, Singer Island, Florida, USA.
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Crevalle Jack (Caranx hippos) schooling. Also known as the Common Jack Black-tailed Trevally Couvalli Jack Black Cavalli and Yellow Cavalli. Found in tropical and temperate waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Atlantic Spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber), schooling. Usually found in shallow waters along the coastline of the southeastern United States and in the Caribbean. This species is endemic to the western Atlantric Ocean. North Carolina, USA.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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French Grunt (Haemulon flavolineatum), schooling on a coral reef in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA.
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Schooling Blue-striped Snapper (Lutjanus kasmira). Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific. Introduced to Hawaii as a possible food source.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Schooling Blue-striped Snapper (Lutjanus kasmira). Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific. Introduced to Hawaii as a possible food source.
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Schooling Blue-striped Snapper (Lutjanus kasmira). Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific. Introduced to Hawaii as a possible food source.
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Schooling Blue-striped Snapper (Lutjanus kasmira). Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific. Introduced to Hawaii as a possible food source.
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Schooling Yellow-stripe Goatfish (Mulloidichthys vanicolensis). Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific.
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Schooling Yellow-stripe Goatfish (Mulloidichthys vanicolensis). Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific.
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Schooling Yellow-stripe Goatfish (Mulloidichthys vanicolensis). Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific.
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Schooling Black Striped Salema (Xenocys jessiae), endemic to the Galapagos Islands, and schooling Yellowtail Surgeonfish (Prionurus laticlavius). Galapagos Islands, Equador.
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Schooling Big-eye Trevally (Caranx sexfasciatus). Also known as Horse-eye Jack. Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
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A schooling vortex of Black Striped Salema (Xenocys jessiae). This fish is endemic to the Galapagos Islands, where this picture was taken. Galapagos Islands, Equador.
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Bar Jack (Caranx ruber), predating on schooling Baitfish. Photo taken off the island of Bonaire, Caribbean.
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A single Great Barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda), predating on schooling Baitfish around the pylons of a jetty off Bonaire, Caribbean.
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Schooling Dusky Chub (Girella freminvillei). This fish is endemic to the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador, where this picture was taken, and is also known as Porgy.
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Schooling Dusky Chub (Girella freminvillei). This fish is endemic to the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador, where this picture was taken, and is also known as Porgy.
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Schooling Black Striped Salema (Xenocys jessiae). This fish is endemic to the Galapagos Islands, where great mass schools can be seen. Galapagos Islands, Equador.
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Hawaiian Flagtails (Kuhlia xenura), schooling in surge close to shore. This fish is Endemic to Hawaii waters. Phot taken off Lanai, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean.
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Schooling Smallmouth Grunts (Haemulon chrysargyreum). Photo taken off the island of Curacao, Caribbean.
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Schooling Black Striped Salema (Xenocys jessiae), endemic to Galagagos Islands, and Yellowtail Surgeonfish (Prionurus laticlavius). Galapagos Islands, Equador.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Blue Goatfish (Parupeneus cyclostomus), Trumpetfish (Aulostomus chinensis) and Whitemouth Moray eel (Gymnothorax meleagris), all working together to flush out small fish to prey on. Hawaii, Pacific Ocean, USA.
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Schooling Big-eye Trevally (Caranx sexfasciatus). Also known as Horse-eye Jacks. Found throughout the Indo-Pacific including the Great Barrier Reef Australia.
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Schooling Yellow-striped Goatfish (Mulloidichthys vanicolensis). Found throughout the Indo-Pacific, from Red Sea to Hawaii and the Tuamotus, north to Japan and Lord Howe Island. Photo taken in Papua New Guinea.
© Hayley Versace / OceanwideImages.com |
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Golden Trevally (Gnathanodon speciosus). Also known as Golden Kingfish Banded Trevally and King Trevally. Photo taken Ningaloo Reef Western Australia Australia.
© Hayley Versace / OceanwideImages.com |
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Schooling Convict Surgeonfish (Acanthurus triostegus). Found throughout South-East Asia and Indo-East Pacific, including Great Barrier Reef. Photo taken at Ningaloo Reef, WA, Australia.
© Hayley Versace / OceanwideImages.com |
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Colony of Yellow Zoanthids (Parazoanthus sp.). Southern Australia
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