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Smooth trunkfish
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Smooth trunkfish
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Smooth trunkfish
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Spotfin butterfly fish
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Tiger grouper
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This close-up image of symmetrical brain coral (Diploria strigosa) shows thegrooved surface of the coral which os one of its most defining features.
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Christmas tree worms (Spirobranchus giganteus) at East Flower Garden Bank.Each pair of of colorful tree-like appendages are the gills of one animal. Itsbody, up to a foot long, resides in a tube encased within the coral boulder.
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A cluster of male ruby brittle stars (Ophioderma rubicundum) atop a brain coral. These males will soon release sperm during a night-time spawning event.
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This hermit crab (Paguristes hernancortezi) was found scuttling across the seafloor in deeper areas of Flower Garden Banks NMS. The photo was taken with anROV.
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A close-up look at the eye stalks of a queen conch (Strombus gigas) observed ina sand flat at West Flower Garden Bank.
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This murex, a type of marine snail, is sitting atop a bright red sponge atStetson Bank.
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A red night shrimp (Cinetorhynehus manningi) perched on the reef.
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A sea hare (Aplysia morio) swimming at Stetson Bank.
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Fire coral (Millepora alcicornis) covers a rocky pinnacle at Stetson Bank.The coral-spong communities of Stetson Bank were added to Flower GardenBanks NMS in 1996.
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Spiny lobster
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Spiny lobster
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A tiger grouper (Mycteroperca tigris) pauses at a fish cleaning station so small neon gobies (Gobiosoma oceanops) can remove parasites, dead skin, etc.
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Redlip blenny (Ophioblennius atlanticus) often perch on their pelvic fins on top of coral heads.
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Creole wrasse
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A scuba diver swims amid a school of fish
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