Blue Sprat
Blue Sprat (Sprattelloides delicatulus) loosely aggregated while feeding at Shark Beach, Koror, Republic of Palau.
Oxeye Scad
Large school of Oxeye Scad (Selar boops) at Shark Beach, Koror, Republic of Palau.
Goggleye
Goggleye (Priacanthus hamrur) schoolling at Sand Bar, Koror, Repupublic of Palau.
Goggleye schoolling in Palau
Whitetail Squirrelfish pair
Whitetail Squirrelfish (Sargocentron caudimaculatum) pair at Siaes Corner, Koror, Republic of Palau.
A group of Highfin Chub (Kyphosus cinerascens) swim by in German Channel, Koror, Repulic of Palau.
Masked Rabbitfish
Masked Rabbitfish (Siganus puellus) pair at German Channel, Koror, Republic of Palau.
Bigeye Barracuda
Bigeye Barracuda () schooling as Siaes Corner, Koror, Republic of Palau.
Blackfin Barracuda
Blackfin Barracuda (Sphyraena qenie) congregate near Black Durgon (Melichthys niger) at the Blue Corner, Koror, Republic of Palau.
Bigeye Barracuda (Sphyraena forsteri) congregate at Sand Bar, Koror, Republic of Palau.
Remora pair on Coastal Manta Ray
A pair of Remoras (Remora remora) riding on the underside of a Coastal Manta Ray (Mobula alfredi) at German Channel, Koror, Republic of Palau.
Labroidei pair
The Threespot Wrasse (Halichoeres trimaculatus) and Neon Damsel (Pomacentrus coelestis) are memebrs of separate families united in the Suborder Labroidei. Thus pair was photographed at German Channel, Koror, Republic of Palau.
Bicolor Anthias pair
This Bicolor Anthias (Pseudanthgias bicolor) pair are pointed towards the surface orienting their bodies to the vertical wall of a submerged pinnicle off Niihau, Hawaii.
Bigeye Emperor shoal
A Bigeye Emperor (Monotaxis grandoculis) shoal including two juveniles off Niihau, Hawaii.
Threespot Chromis
A Sandbar Shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) and Mackeral Scad (Decapterus macarellus) form a background for ths group of Threespot Chromis (Chromis verater) off Niihau, Hawaii. Photographed while scuba diving using a Nikon D3X camera in a Seacam housing equipped with a Seacam modified Nikonos RS 20-35mm lens and two Retra underwater strobes.
Milletseed butterflyfish pair
A pair of Hawaiian endemic Milletseed Butterflyfish (Chaetodon miliaris) swim along the face of a submerged pinnicle at Vertical Awareness, a dive site off Niihau, Hawaii. Just above them is a juvenile Saddle Wrasse (Thalassoma duperrey) which is also a Hawaiian endemic fish.
Whitesaddle Goatfish
Whitesaddle Goatfish (Parupeneus porphyreus), a Hawaiian endemic fish, schooling off a reef at Maui, Hawaii.
Four predators approach
I looked up towards the surface to see four predators approaching, three Bluefin Trevalley (Caranx melampygus) and one Giant Trevalley a.k.a Ulua (Ulua aukea), while scuba diving off the backwall (at bottom of image) of Molokini Crater, off Maui, Hawaii.
Blue-eye Damselfish (Plectroglyphiododon johnsonianus)
A pair of Blue-eye Damselfish (Plectroglyphiododon johnsonianus) next to a Molokini Crater reef near Maui, Hawaii.
Brick and Bigscale soldierfishes
Brick and Bigscale soldierfishes aggregated (Myripristiis amaena and M. berndti) under a ledge at Molokini Crater, Maui, Hawaii.
Schooling Pearly Soldierfish
Pearly Soldierfish (Myripristis kuntee) schooling near a reef just offshore of Maui, Hawaii, USA.
