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Animal Behavior
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Lizardfish (Synodontidae sp.)
swallowing an unidentified fish.
Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi,
Indonesia.  
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Male Coral Cardinalfish
brooding eggs.  Anilao,
Batangas, Philippines,
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A White Grunt (Haemulon sciurus)
assumes the open mouth pose to
be cleaned by an intermediate
Porkfish (Anisotremus virginicus.  
Boynton Beach, Florida, U.S.A.  
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(Opistognathus aurifrons) A
male Yellowhead Jawfish
mouth brooding eggs.   
Boynton Beach, Florida,
U.S.A.  
(Chaenopsis limbaughi) performs
a threat display towards a rival
male in 60 feet of water.  Boynton
Beach, Florida, U.S.A.
Coral Grouper
(Cephalopholis miniata)
being cleaned by an
unidentified cleaner shrimp.
Eilat, Israel.
A White Grunt (Haemulon sciurus)
assumes the open mouth pose to
be cleaned by an intermediate
Porkfish (Anisotremus virginicus.  
Boynton Beach, Florida
A male Cardinalfish
(Apogon sp.) mouth
brooding eggs in its mouth.
 Lembeh Strait, North
Sualwesi, Indonesia
 A male Belted Cardinalfish
brooding eggs.  Boynton Beach,
Florida, U.S.A.  
Two Spotted Goatfish
(Pseudupeneus maculatus) bat
their barbels at each other during
a fight.  Boynton Beach, Florida,
U.S.A.  
Brown Chromis (Chromis
multilineata) cleaned by Pederson
Cleaner Shrimp (Periclimenes
pedersoni).  Curacao, Netherlands
Antilles.
Male Coral Cardinalfish (Apogon
properupta) mouth brooding
eggs.  Anilao, Batangas,
Philippines
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White Grunt (Haemulon
plumierii) being cleaned by a
Pederson Cleaner Shrimp
Boynton Beach, Palm Beach
County, Florida, U.S.A.  
Yellowface Pikeblenny
(Chaenopsis limbaughi) comes
out of its hole in 60 feet of water.
 Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas.
A pair of juvenile Redband
aurofrenatum) lock jaws during a
territorial fight.  Curacao,
Netherlands Antilles.  
Fingered Dragonet (Dactylopus
dactylopus) pair mating.  Anilao,
Batangas, Philippines.  
Mating Butter Hamlets
(Hypoplectrus unicolor).  Curacao,
Netherlands Antilles.  
A male Yellowhead Jawfish
(Opistognathus aurifrons)
Bahama Island, Bahamas,  
Atlantic Ocean.
White Grunt (Haemulon
plumierii) having its gills
cleaned by a Pederson Cleaner
Shrimp (Periclimenes
pedersoni).  Boynton Beach,
Florida, U.S.A.  
Unidentified mating dragonets
(Callionymidae sp.).  Tulamben,
Bali, Indonesia.  
Lizardfish (Synodontidae sp.)  
swallowing an unidentified fish.
Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi,
Indonesia.  
Moray eel (Muraenidae
sp.) being cleaned by a
cleaner shrimp
(Urocaridella sp.).  Eilat,
Israel.  Red Sea.
Blacksaddle Snake Eel
(Ophichus cephalozona)
surrounded by Frostfin
hoevenii).  Lembeh Strait,
hoevenii).  Lembeh Strait,
North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
 
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