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  • Nº14 # Date: 2015-05-21 - 12:30
  • # Max Depth: 16m Duration: 37mins
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  • Temp: Surf 16°C Bottom 17°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Reef
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • Weights: 9 kg
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Diodon liturosus Shaw, 1804 (Black-blotched porcupinefish) Inhabits reef edges and slopes . Hides in caves and ledges during the day and forages at night . Also found below plate-corals during the day and often deep, ranging to at least 40 meters depth. Juveniles occur in lagoo...
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Upeneus sulphureus Cuvier, 1829 (Goat fish) Found in coastal waters, entering estuaries . Forms schools . Has appearance of sillaginids when schooling .
Sebastapistes fowleri (Pietschmann, 1934) (Dwarf scorpionfish) Found in areas with rubble or mixed sand and rubble, within or near coral reefs . Benthic . Venomous spines .
Pontinus sierra (Gilbert, 1890) (scorpionfish)
Scorpis violacea (Hutton, 1873) (Blue maomao) Occurs inshore .
Coris sandeyeri (Hector, 1884) (Sandager's wrasse) Feeds mainly on small benthic invertebrates like ophiuroids, chitons, amphipods, and small gastropods. Adults feed by rummaging on the bottom while juveniles and sub-adults are facultative cleaner symbionts and pick parasites from the bodies of other fish. They also feed on benthic organisms .

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