Sunday's (11/30) Maui dive photos
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SterlingDiver
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.......way up as always.
Must of been a great dive.
Thank you for sharing them with us.
SterlingDiver
Must of been a great dive.
Thank you for sharing them with us.
SterlingDiver
Great, as always! Do all emjpty sea urchins look like that? I have one, we call them sea biscuits, and I always wondered how related they are to sand dollars.
Gilligan,
Your unidentified wrasse in photo 2 appears to be an Elegant Wrasse, Coris venusta.
http://ichtyonb1.mnhn.fr/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?genusname=Coris&speciesname=venusta
Oh yeah, thanks for all the great pics!
Your unidentified wrasse in photo 2 appears to be an Elegant Wrasse, Coris venusta.
http://ichtyonb1.mnhn.fr/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?genusname=Coris&speciesname=venusta
Oh yeah, thanks for all the great pics!
OP
Gilligan
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Dee - Not sure about their connection to Sand Dollars which I also find here but they are flatter. I have never seen one of these alive as they live under the sand and only surface as empty shells (a/k/a empty tests). I did once find what I believed to be a "recent kill" as it still had some of the hair like spines on it. These are extremely brittle and usually break when picked up. Notice this one has a hole in it. I did't even touch it, just photographed it. I have collected a few. One was the size of a softball and I aborted my dive to bring it up. Months later my cat knocked it off the shelf. Grrrrrrrrrrrr ;-0
JpinAZ - Thanks for the fish ID. I suspected that's what it was but the Hoover Hawaii Fish Book has some real crappy photos that are so dark I can't tell what they are for comparison purposes. Pauline Severns of Mike Severns Diving is a marine biologist and ID's anything for me that I can't. I was waiting for her e mail response before naming it on the photo.
JpinAZ - Thanks for the fish ID. I suspected that's what it was but the Hoover Hawaii Fish Book has some real crappy photos that are so dark I can't tell what they are for comparison purposes. Pauline Severns of Mike Severns Diving is a marine biologist and ID's anything for me that I can't. I was waiting for her e mail response before naming it on the photo.
bobert
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Thanks as always for the great photos.
Bob
Bob
segal3
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I tend to use "Reef Fish Identification: Tropical Pacific" by Allen, Steene, Humann, and Deloach...
~Matt Segal
Nice pic of the wrasse. I pretty much give up on taking picture of fish (unless it is one of those that perches on a rock). It is a good thing I am shooting digital so I don't have to pay developing cost and film cost just to get a shot of fish's butt 
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