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Yellow jack – Carangide giallo – Carangoides bartholomaei – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2026-01-19-16h01m37s812
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Yellow Jack

The Yellow Jack is a pale yellow-green-blue dorsally, becoming silver on the underside. Juveniles show around five vertival bands, which fade to blotches and finally disappear altogether as the fish matures. The fins are all hyaline in appearance, often with a golden-brown tinge to them. Older fish tend to be more yellow, with large specimens having bright yellow fins. The yellow jack is distributed throughout the tropical to subtropical western Atlantic Ocean.
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Whitetail dascyllus – Damigella fasciata – Dascyllus aruanus – Humbug damselfish – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2023-12-01-12h12m51s578
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Whitetail dascyllus

Dascyllus aruanus, known commonly as the Whitetail dascyllus or Humbug damselfish among other vernacular names, is a species of marine fish in the family Pomacentridae. Whitetail dascyllus is up to 10 centimetres in length but its common size is 6 centimetres and is white with three black vertical bars.
Stefano
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Gilt-head bream in shallow seabed – Orata nel basso fondale – Sparus aurata – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2026-01-14-15h04m16s707
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Gilt-head bream in shallow seabed

Gilt-head bream, Sparus aurata, is a bony sea and brackish water fish belonging to the Sparidae family. The name derives from the characteristic gold stripe that the fish shows between its eyes. Gilt-head bream is present throughout the Mediterranean basin and in the eastern Atlantic, from the extreme south of the British Isles to Cape Verde. It is a strictly coastal fish and lives between 5 and 150 m from the coast
Fanino Cirivasi
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Blackeye thicklip wrasse – Labro occhio nero – Hemigymnus melapterus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2023-12-07-11h26m43s866
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Blackeye Thicklip

The Blackeye Thicklip wrasse or half-and-half wrasse (Hemigymnus melapterus) is a species of fish belonging to the wrasse family. It is native to the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. The Half-and-half wrasse is a medium-sized fish that can reach a maximum length of 50 cm. Its body is high, relatively flattened, its head is large and its terminal mouth has thick lips. Its body coloration varies according to age.
Stefano
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Scissortail Sergeant – Pesce Sergente coda a forbice – Abudefduf sexfasciatus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-19-16h27m32s196
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Scissortail Sergeant

The Scissortail Sergeant or Striptailed Damselfish (Abudefduf sexfasciatus) is a large damselfish. It earns its name from the black-striped tail and sides, which are reminiscent of the insignia of a military Sergeant, being similar to those of the sergent major damselfish. It grows to a length of about 16 centimetres. Scissortail Sergeants live on coral reefs at depths of up to 15 metres in tropical reaches, often living in a group surrounding a single head of coral.
Stefano
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Leopard Spotted-goby and European Lobster – Ghiozzo Leopardo e Astice – Thorogobius ephippiatus and Homarus gammarus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-04-01-15h01m10s977
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Leopard Spotted-goby and European Lobster

During this dive I came across a strange pair of Mediterranean marine specimens. It is a European Lobster, Homarus gammarus, and a Leopard-spotted Goby that share the same cave; evidently there is a mutual convenience to which I cannot give a logical explanation. In fact, the European Lobster usually lives alone in the den that it has built and, in general, does not tolerate intrusions by others.
Fanino Cirivasi
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Five-saddle parrotfish female – Pesce pappagallo a cinque selle – Scarus scaber femmina – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-02-11h47m13s883
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Five-saddle parrotfish female

The Five-saddle parrotfish, Scarus scaber female, or dusky-capped parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish; a parrotfish in the family Scaridae. It is native to Indian Ocean. This species grows to a maximum 37 cm in length and 900 g in weight. This species is widely distributed in the Indian Ocean (and around the islands therein) from western Thailand and northwest Indonesia in the east (southwards to Cocos-Keeling), and west to the coast of Africa (as far south as Natal and north to Red Sea and Gulf of Aden).
Stefano
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Black Grouper – Cernia nera – Mycteroperca bonaci – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-12-11-16h15m51s444
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Black Grouper - Mycteroperca bonaci

The Black Grouper, Mycteroperca bonaci, belongs to the family of the Serranidae, subfamily Epinephelinae and includes numerous species of saltwater fish; they are large fish, which generally live in depth and are appreciated for their prized meats. It is a protogynous hermaphrodite fish that lives for a long time, some estimate even over 50 years, and that becomes male around the age of 12.
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Two-banded sea Bream – Sarago fasciato – Diplodus vulgaris – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-11-06-11h59m40s943
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Two-banded sea Bream

Two-banded sea Bream, Diplodus vulgaris, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sparidae, which includes the sea breams and porgies. This species is found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean. It is an important species for fisheries and is grown in aquaculture. Diplodus vulgaris has an oval shaped, deep, compressed body with a moderately fleshy-lipped slightly protrusible mouth.
Fanino Cirivasi
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Double Bar Rabbitfish – Pesce Coniglio dalle due sbarre – Siganus virgatus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-23-17h25m34s882
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Double Bar Rabbitfish

Double Bar Rabbitfish, Siganus virgatus, the Barhead spinefoot, or Double Bar Spinefoot is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a rabbitfish belonging to the family Siganidae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific region. Like all rabbitfishes, the dorsal fin has 13 spines and 10 soft rays while the anal fin has 7 spines and 9 soft rays. The fin spines hold venom glands.
Stefano
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Map puffer – Pesce Palla mappa – Arothron mappa – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-19-11h22m29s887
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Map puffer - Arothron mappa

The Map puffer (Arothron mappa), also known as the Map pufferfish, Scribbled pufferfish, or Kesho-fugu, is a demersal marine fish belonging to the family Tetraodontidae. The map puffer is typically found in tropical and subtropical waters from the Indian Ocean to the western Pacific ocean. This fish contains tetrodotoxin, a potent and deadly chemical compound used to ward off predators.
Stefano
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Specklefin grouper – white-streaked grouper – Cernia maculata – Epinephelus ongus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-13-18h43m18s104
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Epinephelus ongus

Specklefin grouper,Epinephelus ongus, has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution. It is found in the east African coast from Somalia to South Africa and Madagascar. It is then found in the Seychelles and the Maldives and southern India and Sri Lanka along the coasts of Thailand and Malaysia east into the Pacific Ocean as far as New Caledonia and Tonga. They are found as far north as the Ryukyu islands and Ogasawara islands in southern Japan and south to Australia
Stefano
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Flathead grey mullets – Cefalo comune – Mugil cephalus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-05-20-15h52m34s268
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Flathead grey mullet - Mugil cephalus

Flathead grey mullets, Mugil cephalus, it is a fish able to withstand wide variations in salinity, in fact we find it regularly in marine waters, fresh or brackish waters. Extremely adaptable to all environments; we often find it at the mouths of rivers, in lagoon areas where sea water mixes with fresh water from the hinterland and inside bays and harbors. We met him among the roks of Castiglioncello: a well-known tourist and seaside resort near Livorno in Mediterranean sea.
Fanino Cirivasi
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White-edge soldierfish – Pesce soldato – Myripristis murdjan – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2023-12-11-15h22m39s684
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Myripristis murdjan

White-edge soldierfish, Myripristis murdjan, is a species of soldierfish found in the Indo-Pacific. It is found at depths of 3–40 metres and inhabits sheltered coastal and offshore coral reefs, typically in turbid areas of bays or lagoons. During the day, it hides in caves or beneath ledges, while at night, it feeds on plankton. It can be found in loose aggregations, sometimes with other species of soldierfish.
Stefano
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Black-blotched porcupinefish – Pesce Istrice puntinato – Diodon liturosus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2023-12-01-15h52m37s974
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Diodon liturosus

The black-blotched porcupinefish (Diodon liturosus), also known as Shortspine porcupinefish, is a member of the family Diodontidae. It is found in the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-Pacific on coral and rocky reefs and in inshore waters. Other names are the blotched porcupinefish and the brown-backed porcupinefish.
Stefano
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Blackwedged butterflyfish – Pesce farfalla dalla doppia sella – Chaetodon falcula – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2023-12-03-12h02m03s980
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Chaetodon falcula

Chaetodon falcula, the blackwedged butterflyfish or falcula butterflyfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish a butterflay belonging to the family Chaetodontidae. It is found in the Indian Ocean. Has a white body which is marked with a number of thin vertical dark grey lines.
Stefano
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Honeycomb grouper
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Honeycomb grouper

The Honeycomb grouper (Epinephelus merra) is a grouper from the subfamily Epinephelinae which is part of the family Serranidae. It has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution where it is found in coastal and offshore reefs in shallow waters. The Honeycomb grouper is one of the most common small groupers of the Indo-Pacific. It is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific.
Stefano
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Coral Rabbitfish – Pesce Coniglio del corallo – Siganus corallinus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-22-12h31m08s664
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Coral Rabbitfish

The Coral Rabbitfish, (Siganus corallinus), or blue-spotted spinefoot, ocellated spinefoot or orange spinefoot, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a rabbitfish belonging to the family Siganidae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific where it is often caught as a food fish and occasionally as an aquarium fish.
Stefano
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Titan triggerfish – Pesce Balestra Titano – Giant triggerfish – Balistoides viridescens – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2023-05-12-15h59m08s992
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Titan triggerfish Balestra titano

The Titan triggerfish, Balestra titano  Giant triggerfish or Moustache triggerfish (Balistoides viridescens) is a large species of triggerfish found in lagoons and at reefs to depths of 50 m. in most of the Indo-Pacific, though it is absent from Hawaii. With a length of up to 75 centimetres. it is the largest species of triggerfish in its range (the stone triggerfish, Pseudobalistes naufragium, from the east Pacific is larger). ...
Stefano
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Starry Toadfish – Stellate puffer – Pesce Palla Stellato – Arothron stellatus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-19-14h30m33s974
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Arothron stellatus

Starry Toadfish, Arothron stellatus, also known as the stellate puffer, starry puffer or starry pufferfish is a very large pufferfish which grows up to 120 cm. in length. The background coloration goes from white to grey, and the body is harmoniously dotted with black spots. The ventral area is usually clearer. The size of the spots is inversely proportional to the size of the fish.
Stefano
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Eyed Flounder – Bothus ocellatus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-05-07-10h55m15s579
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Bothus ocellatus

 Eyed Flounder (Bothus ocellatus) is a species of fish in the family Bothidae. The species is found on or near the sandy seabed in relatively shallow waters in the western Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, its range extending from Canada to southern Brazil ...
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Moorrish idol – Idolo moresco – zanclus cornutus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2023-12-07-16h54m28s655
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Moorish idol

The Moorish idol (Zanclus cornutus) is a marine fish species, the sole extant representative of the family Zanclidae in order Acanthuriformes. A common inhabitant of tropical to subtropical reefs and lagoons, the Moorish idol is notable for its wide distribution throughout the Indo-Pacific. A number of butterflyfishes (genus Heniochus) closely resemble the Moorish idol.
Stefano
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Sweeper fish – Pesci Spazzino – Pempheris oualensis – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-28-17h36m20s942
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Pempheris oualensis Sweeper fish

Sweepers, Pempheris oualensis, are small, tropical marine (occasionally brackish) perciformes fish of the family Pempheridae. Found in the western Atlantic Ocean and Indo-Pacific region, the family contains about 26 species in two genera. One species (Pempheris xanthoptera) is the target of subsistence fisheries in Japan, where the fish is much enjoyed for its taste.
Stefano
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Indian Ocean Oriental Sweetlips – Grugnitore orientale – Plectorhinchus orientalis – www.intotheblue.it-2023-12-05-15h23m00s788
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Plectorhinchus orientalis

The Indian Ocean oriental sweetlips inhabits shallow coastal coral reefs, lagoons and seaward reefs at depths of 2 to 25 m. It is found singly or in small aggregations and is tends to be nocturnal. The juveniles may be found in tidepools and in beds of sea grass. It forages at night feeding on small invertebrates such crustaceans, gastropods or annelids, as well as smaller fishes.
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Zebra tang – Pesce Chirurgo zebrato – Acanthurus polyzona – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-13-15h06m37s656
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Zebra tang

Acanthurus polyzona has a rather restricted distribution in the tropical western Indian Ocean, its range including Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion and the Comoro Islands. It lives in shallow reef habitats, in lagoons and on outer reef slopes, over sandy, rocky or coral seabeds at depths down to about 15 m.
Stefano
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Silver Moonyfish – Pesce Luna argento – Monodactylus argenteus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-18-15h22m13s919
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Monodactylus argenteus

Monodactylus argenteus is a species of fish in the family Monodactylidae, the moonyfishes. Its common names include silver moonyfish, or silver moony, butter bream, and diamondfish. It is native to the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, including the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, and associated estuaries, such as the Mekong Delta. It is bright shiny silver with yellowish edges to the fins.
Stefano
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Goldspotted Rabbitfish – Pesce Coniglio dorato – Siganus punctatus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-05-15h25m08s949
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Goldspotted Rabbitfish

Goldspotted Rabbitfish, Siganus punctatus, or goldspotted spinefoot, punctuated spinefoot, spotted rabbitfish, spotted spinefoot, yellow-spotted spinefoot, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a rabbitfish belonging to the family Siganidae. It occurs in the Indo-West Pacific region. It occurs down to 40 m. in depth in clear lagoons and on seaward reefs as adults while the juveniles school in estuaries.
Stefano
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Red-breasted wrasse – Tordo gola rossa – Cheilinus fasciatus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-14-14h15m19s457
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Red-breasted Wrasse

The Red-breasted wrasse (Cheilinus fasciatus) belongs Actinopterygii class, Labriformes order,Labridae family. It lives in the lagoons and coral reefs of the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea.Young people prefer areas with a lot of aquatic vegetation, adults are often found in areas rich in corals and with sandy bottoms. It can be found up to 60 m deep.
Stefano
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Blue-barred Parrotfish – Pesce Pappagallo fiamma – Scarus ghobban – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-21-15h59m26s441
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Blue-barred parrotfish

Blue-barred parrotfish, Scarus ghobban, is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the family Scaridae. This species is blue-green to green in colour and commonly grows to approximately 46 cm. Its appearance is variable. It may have a central stripe on the dorsal and anal fins that is pink in color. The underside of the body may be pinkish or yellowish.
Stefano
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Blackbelly Triggerfish – Rhinecanthus verrucosus – Pesce Balestra Macchiato – www,intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-02-10-11h22m27s477
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Rhinecanthus verrucosus

The blackbelly triggerfish is a territorial species and defends its territory against other triggerfish including the lagoon triggerfish (Rhinecanthus aculeatus). Its habitat in lagoons and reef flats where it favours areas with seaweed, corals, seagrasses, sandy flats, and stony places. It may move from place to place according to the status of the tide.
Stefano
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Mediterranean Cardinalfish – Re di Triglie o Pesce Cardinale – Apogon imberbis – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-10-17-16h38m26s969
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Cardinalfish

Cardinalfish, Apogon imberbis, or Mediterranean cardinalfish, king of the mullets, is a species of ray-finned fish, a cardinalfish belonging to the family Apogonidae. It is widely distributed in the Mediterranean and along the warm temperate and tropical eastern Atlantic coasts
Fanino Cirivasi
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Dussumier’s halfbeak – Pesce Mezzobecco – Hyporhamphus dussumieri – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-14-16h44m37s494
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Dussumier's halfbeak

The Dussumier's halfbeak (Hyporhamphus dussumieri), also known as the slender garfish, lives in reefs and shallow lagoons. It is an Indo-Pacific species which is found from the Seychelles east to the Tuamotu islands, north to Hong Kong and Okinawa and south to northern Australia. They form schools which are found near the surface of lagoons and seaward reefs.
Stefano
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Striped Eel Catfish – Pesce Gatto dei Coralli – Plotosus lineatus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-03-01-15h48m07s822
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Striped Eel Catfish

Striped Eel Catfish, is a species of eeltail catfishes belonging to the family Plotosidae. Like most other members of the genus Plotosus. they possesses highly venomous spines that they can use to sting when threatened. The venom can cause mild to severe symptoms in humans.
Stefano
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Yellowback fusilier – Fuciliere dal Dorso Giallo – Caesio xanthonota – www.intotheblue.it-2023-12-04-15h03m34s154
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Yellowback Fusilier

The Yellowback Fusilier (Caesio xanthonota) is a pelagic marine ray-finned fish, a fusilier belonging to the family Caesionidae. It is native to the tropical Indo-Pacific, being found in shallow water from the East African coast to Indonesia.
Stefano
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Permiculated Angelfish – Pesce Angelo Vermicolato – Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-02-23-14h58m37s690
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Vermiculated Angelfish

The Vermiculated Angelfish, Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus, is a species of marine ray-finned fish a marine angelfish belonging to the family Pomacanthidae. It is found in the Indo-West Pacific region. Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus has blue lips contrasting with its yellow face.
Stefano
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Young Yellowbelly rock cod – Dusky Grouper – Giovane Cernia bruna – Epinephelus marginatus – www.intotheblue.it-2024-10-10-16h43m38s055
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Young Dusky Grouper

Young Dusky Grouper, Epinephelus marginatus , the yellowbelly rock cod or yellowbelly grouper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the family Serranidae. This species is the best known grouper species of the Mediterranea Sea and North Africa coast.
Fanino Cirivasi
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