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Moorish Idol (Zanclus cornutus). Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific. Photo taken at the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Moorish Idol (Zanclus cornutus). Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific. Photo taken at the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Humphead Parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum). Also known as Double-headed Parrotfish. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Humphead Parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum). Also known as Double-headed Parrotfish. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Humphead Parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum). Also known as Double-headed Parrotfish. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Blunt-headed Parrotfish (Scarus microrhinos) - feeding on hard coral. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Porites coral with bite marks inflicted by feeding Parrotfish. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Blunt-headed Parrotfish (Scarus microrhinos). Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Blunt-headed Parrotfish (Scarus microrhinos). Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Red-speckled Parrotfish (Cetoscarus bicolor) - male courting female. Also known as Two-colour Parrotfish. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Red-speckled Parrotfish (Cetoscarus bicolor) - male courting female. Also known as Two-colour Parrotfish. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Red-speckled Parrotfish (Cetoscarus bicolor) - male courting female. Also known as Two-colour Parrotfish. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Red-speckled Parrotfish (Cetoscarus bicolor) - male courting a female. Also known as Two-colour Parrotfish. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Starry Pufferfish (Arothron stellatus). Also known as Starry Toadfish. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Black-spotted Pufferfish (Arothron nigropunctatus) - male. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Stars and Stripes Toadfish (Arothron hispidus). Also known as Stars and Stripes Pufferfish. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Lined Rabbitfish (Siganus lineatus). Also known as Golden-lined Spinefoot. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Coral Rabbitfish (Siganus corallinus). Also known as Ocellated Spinefoot. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Small-scale Scorpionfish (Scorpaenopsis oxycephala). Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Small-scale Scorpionfish (Scorpaenopsis oxycephala). Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Lacy Scorpionfish (Rhinopias aphanes). Also known as Weedy Scorpionfish and Merlot Scorpionfish. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Coral Scorpionfish (Sebastapistes cyanostigma). Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Small-scale Scorpionfish (Scorpaenopsis oxycephala). Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Small-scale Scorpionfish (Scorpaenopsis oxycephala). Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Lacy Scorpionfish (Rhinopias aphanes). Also known as Weedy Scorpionfish and Merlot Scorpionfish. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Lacy Scorpionfish (Rhinopias aphanes). Also known as Weedy Scorpionfish and Merlot Scorpionfish. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Leaf Scorpionfish (Taenianotus triacanthus). Also known as Paper Scorpionfish. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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False Stonefish (Scorpaenopsis diabolus), misspelling (Scorpaenopsis diabola). Often mistaken for a Stonefish, due to the rock-like appearance of this species. Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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False Stonefish (Scorpaenopsis diabolus), misspelling (Scorpaenopsis diabola). Often mistaken for a Stonefish, due to the rock-like appearance of this species. Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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False Stonefish (Scorpaenopsis diabolus), misspelling (Scorpaenopsis diabola). Often mistaken for a Stonefish, due to the rock-like appearance of this species. Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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False Stonefish (Scorpaenopsis diabolus), misspelling (Scorpaenopsis diabola). Often mistaken for a Stonefish, due to the rock-like appearance of this species. Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Eastern Red Scorpionfish (Scorpaena jacksoniensis), resting on a sea sponge. Found in shallow water and deep reefs along the east coast of Australia from southern Queensland to eastern Victoria. Photo taken at Solitary Islands, Coffs Harbour, NSW.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Short Seamoth (Eurypegasus draconis). Also known as Pegasus and Little Dragonfish. Variable in colour and mimicks shell bits, etc, for camouflage. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Schooling Mangrove Jack (Lutjanus argentimaculatus). Also known as Sea Perch and Snapper. This is a highly prized commercial fish found throughout the Indo-West Pacific. Photo taken near the Yongala shipwreck, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Red Emperor (Lutjanus sebae). This is a highly prized commercial fish found throughout the Indo-West Pacific. Photo taken on the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Scuba diver observing schooling Big-eye Snapper (Lutjanus lutjanus). Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific. Photo taken on the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia.
© Bob Halstead / OceanwideImages.com |
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Extremely venomous Reef Stonefish (Synanceia verrucosa). Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Extremely venomous Reef Stonefish (Synanceia verrucosa). Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. Note: Two Fish in picture.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Extremely venomous Reef Stonefish (Synanceia verrucosa). Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Extremely venomous Reef Stonefish (Synanceia verrucosa). Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Extremely venomous Reef Stonefish (Synanceia verrucosa) . Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Extremely venomous Estuarine Stonefish (Synanceia horrida) in hunting mode, buried in sand with head protruding. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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False Stonefish (Scorpaenopsis diabolus), misspelling (Scorpaenopsis diabola). Often mistaken for Stonefish, due to the rock-like appearance of this species. Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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False Stonefish (Scorpaenopsis diabolus), misspelling (Scorpaenopsis diabola). Often mistaken for Stonefish, due to the rock-like appearance of this species. Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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False Stonefish (Scorpaenopsis diabolus), misspelling (Scorpaenopsis diabola). Often mistaken for Stonefish, due to the rock-like appearance of this species. Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Blue Tang (Paracanthurus hepatus). Also known as Blue Surgeonfish. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Blue Tangs (Paracanthurus hepatus). Also known as Blue Surgeonfish. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Blue Tang (Paracanthurus hepatus). Also known as Blue Surgeonfish. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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