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Orange Cup Coral Tubastraea coccinea

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

Under a ledge in a place difficult to photograph without being smushed into rocks.

Introduced to the Caribbean in 1943, according to Humann & Deloach's book, which has a nice map of distribution over time.

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

Under the ledge with the ladder. Turns out it's hard to take a photo under a dimly-lit surge-buffeted ledge.

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Longfin Damselfish Stegastes diencaeus

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

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Yellowtail Snapper Ocyurus chrysurus

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

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Bluehead Wrasse Thalassoma bifasciatum

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

Initial phases, cleaning other fish.

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Bicolor Damselfish Stegastes partitus

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

Two color variations, one in the top right and one in the bottom left.

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Graysby Cephalopholis cruentata

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

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Common Sea Fan Gorgonia ventalina

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

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Spanish Lobster Scyllarides aequinoctialis

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

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Banded Coral Shrimp Stenopus hispidus

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

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Yellow Goatfish Mulloidichthys martinicus

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

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Atlantic Blue Tang Acanthurus coeruleus

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

Swimming at the edge of the reef. Yellow Goatfish, Blue Tang, one Trumpetfish, and some are probably Ocean Surgeonfish.

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French Angelfish Pomacanthus paru

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

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Harlequin Bass Serranus tigrinus

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

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Queen Parrotfish Scarus vetula

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

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Stoplight Parrotfish Sparisoma viride

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

Initial phase/female.

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sea plumes Genus Pseudopterogorgia

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

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Goldentail Moray Gymnothorax miliaris

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

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Four-eyed Butterflyfish Chaetodon capistratus

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

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Smallmouth Grunt Haemulon chrysargyreum

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

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Yellowline Arrow Crab Stenorhynchus seticornis

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

In a hole in the middle of a brain coral. Can see its eyeshine.

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Knobby Anemone Ragactis lucida

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

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Pederson Cleaner Shrimp Periclimenes pedersoni

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

I seem to be cursed not to be able to take good photos of these.

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Golden Zoanthid Parazoanthus swiftii

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

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Sponge Brittle Star Ophiothrix suensoni

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

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Christmas Tree Worm Spirobranchus giganteus

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Oil Slick Leap dive site.

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Sharpnose Puffer Canthigaster rostrata

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Dive site Oil Slick Leap.

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Brown Chromis Chromis multilineata

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Dive site Oil Slick Leap.

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Schoolmaster Snapper Lutjanus apodus

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sea-kangaroo

Date

May 11, 2008

Description

Dive site Oil Slick Leap.