Among the fronds are swimming crabs, hermits, prawns and well-camouflaged scorpionfish. |
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It was not until the autofocus hit the mark that I noted the jaws of the scorpionfish trapping the poor butterfish. |
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Below them goatfish, wrasses and scorpionfish frolicked amongst the kelp holdfasts. |
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Fishy attractions include huge scorpionfish, lionfish, lots of lizardfish, triggerfish and surgeons and many different wrasse varieties. |
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We found a small turtle resting in the sand, a beautiful scorpionfish, a balloonfish, and several eels. |
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Then Yarrell's blennies and butterfish revealed themselves, along with long-spined scorpionfish in considerable numbers. |
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Many, from small topknots and scorpionfish to the ever-smiling tompot blennies, are of no interest to anglers. |
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Checking carefully in nooks and crannies can often reveal tompot blennies and the occasional small scorpionfish. |
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A night dive on the house reef revealed spiny lobsters and red crabs, morays, scorpionfish and lionfish. |
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Ballan wrasse, dragonets, scorpionfish, butterfish and topknots all occur frequently. |
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In the shallower water gather surgeonfish, triggerfish, scorpionfish, goatfish and giant clams. |
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In the beautiful elkhorn stands we found red-lipped blennies in three-color phases, octopus in the day, candy striped shrimp, lots of macro life, and scorpionfish. |
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The rocky reefs and the small caverns formed within them are home to groupers, moray and conger eels, scorpionfish, many octopuses and the occasional spiny lobster. |
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Entirely encrusted with corals, Mawali is a lively reef, sheltering huge scorpionfish, nudibranchs, sweepers, flower groupers, lionfish and harlequin ghost pipefish. |
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It's a fish magnet, home to swirling schools of baitfish and snappers, multitudes of groupers, and more scorpionfish per square metre than I have ever seen before. |
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Scientists have observed a dolphin trying to get a reluctant moray eel to come out of its crevice by poking it with the spiny body of a dead scorpionfish. |
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A magnificent short-spined scorpionfish with an impressive pink and dirty tan camouflage posed brilliantly, its huge eyes following my every move. |
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The rocky reefs and the small caverns formed within them are home to groupers, moray and conger eels, scorpionfish, many octopus and the occasional spiny lobster. |
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Snake eels, blue-ribbon eels, exotic dragonets, inimicus scorpionfish, stonefish, seahorses and a host of other well-camouflaged species will slowly reveal themselves. |
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Within the wreck are conger, lobsters, edible and swimming crabs, packs of prawns, cuttlefish, topknots, flounders, scorpionfish and a host of blennies and shannies. |
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Little marine life has been attracted to the wreck, apart from the odd moray eel and scorpionfish and a shoal of cardinalfish buzzing around the cockpit. |
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Other species of note observed included goldflag snapper, greater amberjack, large-head scorpionfish, dawn boarfish, shortspine spurdog, and numerous carcharhinid sharks. |
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Members of the scorpionfish genus Sebastes are distinctive because they are primitive viviparous livebearers, resulting in parturition of advanced yolksac larvae. |
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Fish species found in the islands include many species of shark, ray, moray eel, bream, jack, grunt, scorpionfish, triggerfish, grouper, goby, and blenny. |
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