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Fishes
Triggerfish and Surgeonfish
Left: Triggerfish...from top to bottom: clown, indian, titan...they are pretty tame...we can actually get quite near them :D
Right: Surgeonfish...powder-blue, ???, ???
Angelfish and Butterflyfish
Left: Angelfish...from top to bottom: juvenile emperor, emperor, blue-ringed
Right: Butterflyfish...indian vagabond, meyer's, ???
Bannerfish and Batfish
Top: Longfinned bannerfish
Bottom left: Some bannerfish?
Bottom right: Teira batfish
Pufferfish and Boxfish
Top 4: Pufferfish...black-spotted...they are all over the place...keep seeing them every dive...
Bottom left: Spotted boxfish (male)
Bottom right: Yellow boxfish
Groupers and Sweetlips
Left: Groupers...from top to bottom: coral or jewel, white-speckled, black-tipped
Right: Sweetlips...top 2: oriental, bottom: Harlequin
Scorpionfish and stonefish
Top and bottom left: Scorpionfish...smallscale?
Bottom right: Stonefish?
Lionfish/Firefish and Anemonefish
Left: Lionfish/firefish?...Top: ???, bottom 2: Common lionfish or red firefish
Right: Anemonefish...Top: Tomato or Red saddleback, bottom 2: false clown or Western-clown a.k.a. NEMO :D
Ghost pipefish and Trumpetfish
Top 4: Yellow ghost pipefish...they are all the same one :P
Bottom: Trumpetfish
Other fishes
Top: Parrotfish
Mid: Snappers... left: checkered, right: is it a snapper??
Bottom left: Giant trevally
Bottom right: Wrasse??
Other smaller fishes
Speckled sandperch
Sweeper or bullseye
Reticulated damselfish
School of Chevron or black-tipped barracuda
School of Teira batfish
School of Yellowback fusilier with batfish in the background
School of Yellowfin goatfish
School of bigeye snapper
School of ???
School of ???
School of ???
School of anthias
Miscellaneous school of fish under a boat
Other fishes we saw that I do not have photos of includes... rabbitfish, porcupinefish, black-tipped shark (I din see that though :P)...
Corals
Top left: Acropora formosa
Top right: Tubastraea micrantha
Bottom left: Porites sp.
Bottom right: Soft coral - Gorgonian fan - Subergorgia mollis
Miscellaneous corals
Miscellaneous
Cuttlefish and Crustaceans (decapods)
Top: 2 different cuttlefish spotted near each other...cuttlefish belongs to the Cephalopod class which inclused octopus and squids
Bottom left: Cleaner shrimp
Bottom right: A pair of lobsters...only the ?antennae can be seen...that's at 30m liao...din wanna go deeper :P
Sea stars and sea urchins (part of phylum Echinodermata...which also includes feather stars and sea cucumbers)
Top and middle: Sea stars (first 3 are of the Echinasteridae ?class and the 4th one is of the Ophidiasteridae ?class)
Bottom left: Cushion star
Bottom right: Sea urchin
Feather stars
Various ugly sea cucumbers (also known as holothurians)
Eels and sea snake
Left: Undulated?? or giant?? moray
Top right: Spot-face moray
Mid right: Grey eel
Bottom right: Banded sea snake
Others
Top: Cowries...left: tiger, right: egg
Mid left: Spider shell?
Mid right: Jellyfish
Bottom left: Varicose wart slug
Bottom right: Christmas tree worms
Acknowledgement: Not all the photos are taken by me...in fact, many are taken by Ching Hui and Merey :D
Nice hor ;)
Disclaimer: Naming of the above marine life is solely based on author's ability to recognize and identify their various feature...with the help of guidebooks (Indo-Pacific Coral Reef Field Guide and Asia Pacific Reef Guide) and input from friends...
The author is drug peddler and mad chemist...NOT a marine biologist :P
P.S. feel free to leave a comment if u noticed anything is wrongly named or u can fill up the "question marks" for me :D
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