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Mimic octopus, several times at two different sites
Suspected tiger shark
Stargazer
Blue ringed octopuses mating
 Mimic
Octopus!!!
Leafy scorpionfish
Leaf fish/Waspfish
Pregnant robust ghost pipefish
The cutest little juvenile seamoth
Much- desired flabellina nudi
Juvenile harlequin shrimp (see photo)
Giant frogfish mating!
Up to 4 mantas a day
Juvenile guineafowl puffer? (see photo)
Big stuff!
 Manta
rays all year, very unseasonal (photo, courtesy Leonard Sim)
Schooling hammerheads
Squadrons of devil rays
Whale shark
Smaller stuff
Toadfish
Longhorn cowfish
Manta at Gato of all places
Juvenile rockmover wrasse
Lots of octopus at Monad
Huge spearing mantis shrimp Lysiosquillina maculata
Yellow pygmy seahorse
Freckled frogfish
 Juvenile painted frogfish (photo courtesy Leonard Sim)
Pregnant giant frogfish
Juvenile cockatoo waspfish
Many juvenile emperor and blue-ringed angelfish
Yellow Notordoris minor nudibranchs mating and later laying
eggs
Harlequin shrimps - more and more of them!
Huge colony of hundreds of minute juvenile nudibranchs, newly
hatched
Bandtail Frogfish
Warty frogfish
Leafy Scorpionfish
Mimic Octopus
"Fluffy" crab - a hairy porcelain crab perhaps?
"Spike", the juvenile great barracuda living at the bottom
of our line at Monad Shoal
 
Pair of imperial shrimps, Periclimenes imperator
A growing pod of dolphins southeast of Malapascua
A huge school of remoras at Tapilon wreck that gets bigger by the day
Large black spiny sea urchin shrimp, Stegopontonia commensalis,
with beautiful bright blue, black and white coloring.
Harlequin shrimps
Bobbit worm
Black-finned snake eel
Flabellina bicolor (nudibranch)
The start of manta ray season
Plenty of thresher sharks on our shark study
Turtle
Frogfish - a true frogfish rather than anglerfish - Batrachoididae
sp.
Currently in residence: a great barracuda at Manta Point
Blue-ringed octopus
  
Photos courtesy David Silverstone
Robust ghost pipefish
Armina nudibranch
New Flabellina sp. nudibranch
Hammerhead (unseasonal)
Manta ray (2 months early)
Garden eels
Ghost shrimp
The return of the Tapilon barracudas
Juvenile yellow-margin triggerfish (very cute!)
Great barracuda
Hairy frogfish
Grey tilefish
A very close encounter with some huge tuna at a cleaning station
Loads of juvenile lionfish
30 degree water!
  
Stargazer! (Video stills above courtesy
Klemens Gonn, photo below courtesy Francis Luk)
Huge spearing mantis shrimp
Pipehorse
Orange cartoon character (Photo courtesy Jun Tanaka)
(Anyone who can identify wins
a free beer!)
Robust ghost pipefish
School of juvenile diamond trevally
Flathead
Barramundi cod
Melibe mirifica nudibranch
Pacific blue-stripe pipefish
Featherstars reproducing
Lizardfish mating
Pregnant yellow pygmy seahorse
 Giant
octopus
Barramundi cod
Bumphead parrotfish
Pygmy cuttlefish
Yellow dwarf lionfish
One ugly scorpionfish! (see photo)
Melibe bucephala (nudibranch)
Tritonopsilla alba (nudibranch)
Giant octopus
Flatworms mating
Flamboyant cuttlefish
Blue ringed octopus
Manta ray (very unseasonal)
Scalloped hammerheads
Marble ray at Gato
The return of the yellow pygmy seahorse!
Pink pygmy seahorse babies
Nudibranch orgy
As always, several new nudibranch species
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