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  • Nº120 # Date: 1998-04-25 - 10:00
  • # Max Depth: 23m Duration: 51mins
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  • Dive type : Recreational, Reef
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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Sparisoma chrysopterum (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (Blisterside) Occurs in coral reefs and adjacent habitats, the young especially in seagrass beds. Juveniles or primary-phase adults rapidly assume a mottled pattern with which they blend with the substratum when they come to rest on the bottom. Feeds on benthic algae and seagrasses.
Pachygrapsus transversus (Gibbes, 1850) (mottled shore crab)
Pomacanthus paru (Bloch, 1787) (French angelfish) Common in shallow reefs. Usually in pairs, often near sea fans . Feed on sponges, algae, bryozoans, zoantharians, gorgonians and tunicates . Oviparous , monogamous . Spawning pairs are strongly territorial, with usuall...
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