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  • Nº12 # Date: 2009-08-02
  • # Max Depth: 18m Duration: 45mins
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Amazing boat dive across an amazing coral garden.Saw a huge Moray Eel,several species of Parrot fish and 4 large trevally.

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Gymnothorax undulatus (Lacepède, 1803) (Moray)
Ostracion nasus Bloch, 1785 (Shortnose boxfish) Found around rocky and sandy substrates .
Scarus psittacus Forsskål, 1775 (Common parrotfish) Inhabit reef flats and lagoon and seaward reefs to at least 25 m depth . Found over corals . Benthopelagic . Initial-phase fish stage usually form small feeding schools . Graze on benthic algae . Secrete a mucus cocoon .
Scarus collana Rüppell, 1835 (Red Sea parrotfish) Occurs around small coral heads or dead coral rock on silty sand of inshore reefs . Solitary species .
Arothron diadematus (Rüppell, 1829) (Masked puffer) Inhabits coral-rich fringing reefs .
Carangoides coeruleopinnatus (Rüppell, 1830) (Coastal trevally) Found in deep coastal reefs and rarely inshore . Usually solitary .

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