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Underwater Photo Contest Entries By Bill Van Eyk

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The Southern Hulafish (Trachinops caudimaculatus) is a temperate water fish species is a member of the family Plesiopidae which includes the ‘Blue Devils’ and ‘Hulafishes’.
Calamari Swimming in formation -
Snapping shrimp - true it snapped me! Alpheus sp.
Flathead sitting still in lettuce seaweed.
Small snapper shrimp; Alpheus novaezealandiae. Snapping shrimps or pistol shrimps are immediately distinguished from other families by having one claw much larger than the other, the larger claw cylindrical and with a parrot-beak-like finger.
Ricketts Point, snapping shrimp-Alpheus sp. : The fingers at the end of the larger claw are used to make a loud snapping noise to stun prey and scare divers! Not much is know about this species.
Banjo shark (fiddler ray) -Trygonorrhina‑fasciata - posing quietly for this shot. Ricketts Point Melbourne
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Crinoid
Eco resort Lady Elliott Island -
Squid under pier during daytime with flash.
A lonely octopus sitting in an old tire: Octopus pallidus
Close up of "gills" of Chromodoris tinctura
Flatworm at Heron Island
Close up of a crown of thorns starfish
Sharks quietly circling unperturbed rabbit fish, early in the morning
Angler fish - great camouflage look for the eye
Stingray stampede at Heron Island.
Photo taken while free diving. All of the sudden a school of stingrays appeared and swam around for maybe ten minutes or so.
Juvenile stingray with sea lice on its wings. It appeared to be severely affected by the lice and looked emaciated.
Small marine insect - can anybody ID? Image taken about 1 meter deep.
Mantis Shrimp
Big Belly Seahorse Posing
Ceratosoma amoenum
Chromodoris tinctoria
Leatherjacket, trying to blend in with orange sponges. This photo taken as it turned around a pylon.
Very small (10mm) Phyllodesmium serratum, grazing on a sea-squirt "inlet".
It looked like a fungus at first sight but when I looked closer it appeared a tiny nudibranch.
Another weedy seadragon male with eggs under the pier. Slightly closer up.
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