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  • Trapezia tigrinia (= T. wardi) from the Maldives.
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  • Picassofish (Rhinecanthus aculeatus) from Kuredu Island, the Maldives. This species is also known as also known as Humuhumu.
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  • Diving a beautiful cave on "Nakohlu Giri" a reef site close to the island of Kuredu, the Maldives
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  • Scythe Triggerfish (Sufflamen bursa) from Kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • Social feeding group of the blue surgeonfish (Acanthurus leucosternon) at Kurumba Island, the Maldives.
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  • Large group of terrestrial hermit crabs (Coenobita sp., C. scaevola?) from the Maldives.
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  • Painted rock lobster (Panilurus versicolor) from Kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • Clark's anemonefish (Amphiprion clarkii) in the host-sea anemone Heteractis magnifica. Photo from the Maldives.
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  • Golden sweepers (Parapriacanthus ransonneti) from Kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • Sohal of  hardyhead silverside (Atherinomorus lacunosus) in shallow water at Kurtedu Island, the Maldives.
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  • Leaf scorpionfish (Taenianotus triacanthus) from Kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • Indian Ocean oriental sweetlips (Plectorhinchus vittatus) from kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • Blackspotted puffer (Arothron nigropunctatus) from Kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • Lunar-tailed bigeye (Priacanthus hamrur) from Kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • Spotted prawn-goby (Amblyeleotris guttata) from Kuredu, the maldives.
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  • Ascidian colony of the species Diplosoma simile growing entangled among coral rocks on a shallow reef in the Maldives.
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  • A pair of Orange-spotted Filefish (Oxymonacanthus longirostris) in a shallow reef in the Maldives
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  • Red-tailed butterflyfishes (Chaetodon collare) from the Maldives.
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  • A lage underwater cave at "Latheef Reef, Kuredu in the Maldives.  The cave is full of soft corals and fishes.
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  • Swimming crab (Portunus granulatus) from the Maldives.
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  • Banded cleaner shrimp (Stenopus hispidus) in a snall cave in the Maldives.
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  • Social feeding groups of the "Powder Blue Tang", Acanthurus leucosternon, on a shallow reef flat in the Maldives.
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  • variegated lizardfish (Synodus variegatus) from Kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • Escenius sp. from Kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • Congrid eels (Heteroconger sp.?) at 30 meters depth at Kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • Red Lionfish (Pterois volitans). Photo from the Maldives.
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  • Six-spot Goby (Valenciennea sexguttata) in front of their hidingplace in the shallow lagoon at Kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • A pair of Frogfishes, Antennarius sp. (possibly Giant Frogfish, A. commersoni), in a reef in the Maldives.  When divers returned to this very same spot 3 months later, the pair was still here!
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  • Melon butterflyfish (Chaetodon trifasciatus) from Kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • Lunar-tailed bigeye (Priacanthus hamrur) from Kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • The expanded proboscis of a sausage worm (Bonellia sp.?) from a coral reef at Kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • Green Sea Turtle, (Chelonia mydas) from the Maldives.
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  • Kuredu Island, Maldives. Nikon AF-601, 60mm micronikkor, Subal UW-housing, Iklite 225TTL UW-flash, Fuji Velvia 50ASA, april 1992
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  • Moorish Idol, Zanclus cornutus, swimming under an overhanging reef wall in the Maldives.
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  • A lage underwater cave at "Latheef Reef, Kuredu in the Maldives.  The cave is full of soft corals and fishes.
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  • Commrensal shrimp (Urocardiella sp.) cleaning the eye of a dotted sweetlip (Plectorinchus pica). Photo from the Maldives.
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  • Trapezia ferruginea, a guard crab from the Maldives.
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  • Ghost crab (Ocypode saratan) from Kurimba Island, the Maldives.
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  • Clown Triggerfish (Balistoides conspicillum) from Kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • Spotted lionfishes (Pterois antennata) from the Maldives.
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  • Ember parrotfish (Scarus rubroviolaceus) from the Maldives.
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  • Bluefin ttrevally (Caranx melampygus) from Kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • Sohal of  hardyhead silverside (Atherinomorus lacunosus) in shallow water close to the beach at Kurtedu Island, the Maldives.
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  • A Black-spotted Puffer (Arothron nigropunctatus) is being cleaned by two Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) in a reef in the Maldives.
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  • Tiger cardinalfish (Cheilodipterus macrodon) from Kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • Emperor Angelfishes (Pomacanthus imperator.). An unique photo of an adult and a juvenile specimen swimming together , Kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • Leaf scorpionfish (Taenianotus triacanthus) from Kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • Marble wrasse (Halichoeres hortulanus) from Kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • Congrid eels (Heteroconger sp.?) at 10 meters depth at Kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • Group of soilderfishes (Myripristis vittatus) in a cave at 15 meters depth in the Maldives.
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  • Clark's anemonefish (Amphiprion clarkii) and maldive anemonefish (Amphiprion nigripes) in the host-sea anemone Heteractis magnifica. Photo from the Maldives
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  • Unidentified spider crab (family Inachidae) from the Maldives.
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  • Spotted lionfishes (Pterois antennata) resting in a small cave at Kurumba Island, the Maldives.
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  • Yellowspotted scorpionfish (Sebastapistes cyanostigma) from the Maldives.
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  • Harlequin filefish (Oxymonacanthus longirostris) from Kuredu., the Maldives. Do note the small cleaner fish (Labroides) seeking parasites on the filefish.
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  • Red lionfish (Pterois volitans) from the Maldives.
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  • Green Sea Turtle, (Chelonia mydas) from the Maldives.
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  • The expanded proboscis of a sausage worm (Bonellia sp.?) from a coral reef at Kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • The terebellid flatworm Pseudoceros susanae from a coral reef in the maldives.
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  • Trapezia tigrinia (= T. wardi) from the Maldives.
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  • Giant moray (Gymnothorax javanicus) from shallow water at Kanifinolhu, the Maldives.
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  • Guineafowl Puffer (Arothron meleagris) from Kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • A beautiful cave on "Nakohlu Giri" a reef site close to the island of Kuredu, the Maldives
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  • A pair of Maldive anemonefish (Amphiprion nigripes) in the Magnificent host-sea Anemone (Heteractis magnifica)
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  • Coral hind (Cephalopholis miniata) from Latheef Reef, Kuredu, the Maldives.
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  • Moorish idol (Zanclus cornutus) at Latheef Reef, Kuredu, the Maldives.
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  • Terrestrial hermit crab (Coenobita sp., C. scaevola?) from the Maldives.
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  • Zebra Lionfish (Dendrochirus zebra) from Kuredu Ialand, the Maldives.
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  • Royal Angelfish (Pygoplites diacanthus), colour morph from the Maldives.
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  • Giant Morey Eel (Gymnothorax javanicus) cfrom Kurumba Island, the Maldives.
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  • Regal Angelfish (Pygoplites diacanthus) from Kuredu, the Maldives.
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  • Winged oyster (Pteria sp.) from Kuredu, the Maldives.  A species of Lopha sits on the oyster's shell
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  • Cockscomb oyster (Lopha cristagalli) from Kuredu, the Maldives. The valve is covered with red sponge.
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  • Green reef sea-squirt (Didemnum molle) from the Maldives.
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  • Box crab (Calappa sp.) from the Maldives.
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  • Juvenile spotted lionfish (Pterois antennata) from the Maldives.
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  • Bothus sp. from shallow water at Kuredu Island, the maldives.
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  • Eucolium sp., from Embudu Village, the Maldives.
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  • Colonial tunicates of the species Botrylloides leachii from Kuredu, the Maldives.
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  • Tubastraea sp., from a reef wall in the Maldives.
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  • Sohal of Redtooth Triggerfish, Odonus niger, feeding on plancton off the reef edge in a reef in the Maldives.
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  • Terrestrial hermit crabs (Coenobita sp., C. scaevola?) from the Maldives.
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  • Terrestrial hermit crab (Coenobita sp., C. scaevola?) from the Maldives.
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  • Sohal of bluestripe snapper (Lutjanus kasmira) from the Maldives.
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  • Spotted lionfishes (Pterois antennata) resting in a small cave at Embuduh Island, from the Maldives.
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  • Gardiner's headshield slug (Tubulophilinopsis gardineri) from shallow waters in the Maldives.
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  • Two coral scallops (Pedum spondyloidum) deeply buried in a coral at Kuredu, the Maldives.
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  • Christmas Tree Worms(Spirobranchus gardineri) in the coral Leptoseris mycetoseroides. Photo from 20 meters depth at Kuredu Island, the Maldives.
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  • A solitary sea-squirt from the genus Polycarpa photographed in the Maldives.
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  • A solitary sea-squirt from the genus Polycarpa photographed in the Maldives.
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  • Several colonies of the sea-squirt Didemnum cuculliferum photographed in the Maldives.
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  • Green reef sea-squirts (Didemnum molle) from the Maldives
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  • The long tentacles of the spaghetti worm Retetrebella queenslandica photographed in a reef slope in the Maldives. The worm itself is buried oin the reef rocks.
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  • Acropora clathrata from the Maldives
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  • Eyestripe Surgeonfish, Acanthurus dussumieri. The Maldives.
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  • Trapezia sp.,  a guard crab associated with black coral (Antipatharia) in the Maldives.
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  • Christmas Tree Worms(Spirobranchus corniculatus) from the Maldives.
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  • Ecteinascidia bandanensis from the Maldives.
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  • Colonial tunicates of the species Botrylloides leachii from the Maldives.
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  • Green reef sea-squirts (Didemnum molle) from the Maldives.
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