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Shots taken (at smaller than 1:1) with multiple extension rings, diopters, or teleconverters of extremely small subjects typically less than 1 inch (2.5 cm)
Bull Gnathiidae/ This creature looks like an insect but its not. It's a family of isopod crustaceans.
Sexy Shrimps are abundant in the anemones in Bonaire. This one was particularly posing sexy for me!
The Gnathiidae/ Gnathiidae is approx. 5~8mm isopod crustacean. This image is full grown adult male. I tested SMC-1 close-up lens.
Lettuce Sea Slug Elysia crispata)
Roatan Marine Park
Blennie sp. (Acanthemblemaria spinosa)Roatan Marine Park
Urchin shrimp from Ambon, Indonesia
pipe
white star
Porcelain crab on the pennatula
Very small but charismatic yellow bargibandi pygmy seahorse.
Nikon D850, 105 micro, SMC 2.
bluecrab
nudilongs
Tiny Commensal Shrimp with eggs in a tube sponge.
Anilao, Philippines.
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hairy shrimp (phycocaris simulans)
snooted
Lembeh Strait
The bright one.
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pop star
A closer encounter with a Frilled Nudibranch
Eye of small flounder infected by parasites
Cowry allies (Globovula cavanaghi). Picture was taken in Ambon Bay, Indonesia. February 2019
Flying
Tiger Shrimp
Solar coral of Tubastraea.
Sea Pen - Pteroeides details
Chalice coral surface.
Tiger shrimp with snoot torch.
Satomi's pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus satomiae) is the rarest species, and also the smallest
Christmas tree worm closeup
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