Sentences with word «butterflyfish»

Ao Luek featured schools of butterflyfish and even yellow - tailed barracuda which I was not expecting to see at Koh Tao.

There are many channels and gullies through the underwater forest for divers to explore and here you will find yellowtail snappers, Nassau grouper and schoolmasters clustering in small groups, and pairs of banded butterflyfish hiding from inquisitive eyes.

But there are other attractive dive sites such as pinnacles with enormous groups of schooling pyramid butterflyfish, triggerfish and pelagic fishes such as tunas passing through, spectacular hard coral reefs next to the volcano, and great muck dives with lots of mandarinfish in the local jetty.

For kids who love animals, there's an in - depth study on butterflyfish, parrot fish, wrasses, moray eels, endemic species and more using John Hoover's book Hawaiian Reef Fishes.

Here you might spot blue tangs, foureye butterflyfish or the rather splendid queen angelfish amongst the soft corals and small gorgonian fans.

Hastings Reef is renowned for spectacular coral formations, with residents including parrotfish, turtles, giant clams, small reef sharks and brilliant yellow butterflyfish.

Tens of millions of years ago, the African freshwater butterflyfish evolved a distinct body and lifestyle, and it has steadfastly clung onto them ever since, despite dramatic environmental shifts and changes in its own genes.

Redfin butterflyfish in their coral reef habitat.

Snorkeling and diving are popular, with opportunities to spot butterflyfish, stone bass, sea turtles, bottlenose dolphins, manta rays and colourful corals.

Bright gold racoon butterflyfish.

Parrotfish dart in among the large table corals at Maamendhoo Giri, along with turtles munching on the coral, while butterflyfish swim nonchalantly past.

Watch out for butterflyfish, octopus, urchins and a variety of rays.

Angelfish, butterflyfish hamnlets and small groupers are also commonly seen.

With the strong current, you'll see a lot of red - toothed triggerfish and butterflyfish floating by.

Amongst the rocks there were large schools of yellow snapper and numerous other tropical fish such as butterflyfish, surgeonfish, sweetlips and groupers.

Aside from whale watching and pelagic birding trips, Oz Whale Watching offers guided tours around Sydney National Harbour, including snorkelling at Shelley Beach to try and spot blue groper, dusky butterflyfish, black rock cod, wobbegongs, cuttlefish, potbelly seahorses and weedy sea dragons.

It has a variety of easy yet exciting dive sites with a variety of marine life from swarms of colourful butterflyfish to Napoleon wrasse, to eagle rays and white tipped reef sharks.

You'll see butterflyfish, brown surgeonfish, Moorish idol, and humuhumunukunukuapua'a.

And from my subaquatic armchair I got some great snaps of square spot anthias, colourful reef scenes with zillions of little damsels, some weary looking hawkfish and the black butterflyfish.

Angelfish and butterflyfish dance around you and the giant groupers watch them motionlessly.

You will encounter many indigenous species including butterflyfish and angelfish, as well as manta rays, green turtles, spinner dolphins, Hawaiian lionfish, frogfish and possibly migrating humpback whales from November through February.

Foureye, spotfin and banded butterflyfish - always in pairs - swim steadily amongst the sea fans and gorgonians.

How often do you come back from a dive and remember swimming through countless redtooth triggerfish and pyramid butterflyfish?

The crater is home to a lush reef that offers spectacular 150 - foot visibility and is home to over 250 species of fish, including yellow tang, raccoon butterflyfish, and even small whitetip reef sharks.

Nearby Hastings Reef is renowned for spectacular coral formations, with residents including parrotfish, turtles, giant clams, small reef sharks and brilliant yellow butterflyfish.

Another threat to coral is an overabundance of butterflyfish, shown next.

Damselfish are less effective colonizers than butterflyfish and wrasse.

Nobody knows why the butterflyfish has stayed the same for so long.

The butterflyfish is one of the few fish that can breathe air, which it does using its swim bladder, an internal organ filled with gas.

To find a butterflyfish, you must go to the central Congo or lower Niger, and keep a close watch on a still body of water.

What's more, using sensors on its skin the butterflyfish can detect tiny waves in the water produced by insects moving around on the surface, allowing it to work out how far away they are and in which direction.

The butterflyfish is not closely related to any other species, but it belongs to a large group called the bonytongues, which contains a mishmash of primitive fish such as freshwater elephantfish and knifefishes.

When they compared the butterflyfish to some of these relatives, they found that it had the slowest rate of change in body shape, despite a perfectly typical rate of genetic change.

This is trickier than it sounds, because light behaves differently in water and air, and the butterflyfish's brain has an extra cluster of neurons to process the extra information.

That is the butterflyfish at work.

Sébastien Lavoué of the Natural History Museum in London and colleagues wanted to know how long the butterflyfish had been living its peculiar lifestyle, so they decided to look at how much it had evolved.

Most fish with swim bladders use them to maintain their buoyancy, allowing them to stay at the same depth without effort, but the butterflyfish also uses it to take in oxygen.

Once an insect has been captured it has little chance of escape, because the butterflyfish has a mouth containing three jaws: a lower jaw and two upper jaws.

grey angelfish, four - eye butterflyfish, banded butterflyfish and schoolmasters.

Both are excellent choices if you like to go snorkeling or diving, and offer outstanding visibility — strap on a tank or just fit on your flippers, then hover over coral gardens teeming with clownfish, butterflyfish, surgeonfish, rays, and turtles.

Sea fans, azure vase sponges, butterflyfish and wrasses acid additional life and color.

The dramatic drop - offs have a huge variety of soft and hard corals that offer a home to an abundance of reef fish such as fusiliers, butterflyfish, sweetlips, cardinal fish and damsel fish.

Dive sites like Koloa Landing in Sunny Poipu and Tunnels Reef in Haena are nurseries for many colorful reef fish including triggerfish, surgeonfish, parrotfish, butterflyfish, and moray eels.

We can't guarantee what you'll see on the day but you might spot some local residents like green sea turtles, eels, octopus, triggerfish, butterflyfish, surgeonfish, urchins and rays.

We saw large schools of yellow snappers, puffer fish, a red fire goby, butterflyfish, and some nudibranchs.

Smaller delights include clownfish, nudibranchs, long - nose hawkfish, pyramid butterflyfish, blackspot angelfish and fairy basslets and damselfish particularly near the tip.

Explore the deep waters of Bunaken from your choice of dive resort and you can see 7 times more genera of coral than Hawaii, 33 species of butterflyfish and over 70 % of all fish species known to the Indo - western Pacific.