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Water covers the vas majority of our planet and oceans support many diverse groups of animals adapted to living beanth the sea

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  • Crocodile, Snake & Moray Eels
    Crocodile, Snake & Moray Eels
    19 images
    Eels belong to the Order Anguilliformes, which consists of four suborders, 19 families, 110 genera and approximately 800 species. Eels are very diverse and have been observed inhabiting many of the ocean's environments. Most eels are carnivorous predators which feed upon other animals such as: cephalopods, crustaceans, and fish . They are also opportunistic feeders and often feed upon carrion
  • Nudibranchs & Flatworms
    Nudibranchs & Flatworms
    37 images
    Nudibranchs and flatworms are one of the most diverse invertebrates in the marine environment. Color and morphology are usually their distinguishing traits. Nudibranchs live in all oceans and in most environments, however, regions in the South pacific such as Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Indonesia are havens for these underwater jewels
  • Humpback Whales
    Humpback Whales
    47 images
    Ware some of the most identifiable animals to us; indeed, some people believe they have "life changing experiences" when swimming with whales for the first time.
  • Gobies & Blennies
    Gobies & Blennies
    29 images
    Gobies and Blennies are bottom dwelling fish inhabiting all seas and environments. Often ornately colored and living in symbiotic arrangements with blind shrimps they are favored photographs for underwater photographers
  • Pipefishes & Seahorses
    Pipefishes & Seahorses
    19 images
    This group consist of fishes with long tubular snouts and elongate bodies encased in bony ring-like body segments. Many of the pipefishes rank among the most exotic creatures inhabiting earth's shallow seas.
  • Scorpionfish
    Scorpionfish
    49 images
    Scorpionfish are lie and wait predators and highly camouflaged to their surroundings. many scorpionfish are venomous
  • Sharks & Rays
    Sharks & Rays
    6 images
    Sharks and stingrays
  • Frogfish & Leaf Fish
    Frogfish & Leaf Fish
    51 images
    Frogfish and leaf fish are cryptic and therefore very difficult to find underwater. They often mimic the color of a sponge. Frogfish and leaf fish are carnivores and voracious marine predators
  • Sea Snakes
    Sea Snakes
    3 images
    Sea snakes are air breathing reptiles that have evolved to live in the sea. They have a paddle-like tail and although spending most of their time in the oceans, many migrate to land on occasion. They are highly venomous, however, are rear fanged
  • Temperate Marine Life
    Temperate Marine Life
    14 images
    Temperate marine life
  • Cephalpods (cuttlefish, octopus & squid)
    Cephalpods (cuttlefish, octopus &...
    27 images
    Cephapods are some of the most amazing underwater animals. Highly intelligent and masters at camouflage, all squids and octopus have the ability to alter the pigment in their skin changing colors to suit their moods
  • Hard & Soft Corals
    Hard & Soft Corals
    6 images
    An exceptionally diverse group of animals belonging to the Phylum Cnidaria. Corals typically living in compact colonies of many identical individual "polyps". The group includes the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans, which secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton
  • Fish
    Fish
    37 images
    Fish is a very generic term meaning here to be any marine animal belonging to the class Osteichthyes (skeleton mostly composed of bone). Some galleries in the photograph collections belong to this gallery, however, for interest reasons have been segregated. If searching for a specific fish species, please use the search function or the keywords
  • Marine Invertebrates
    Marine Invertebrates
    54 images
    Diverse and often bizarre marine creatures

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