Zebra tang

Acanthurus polyzona, commonly known as the black-barred surgeonfish or zebra tang, is a tropical fish found in coral reefs in the western Indian Ocean. It was first described in 1868 by the Dutch ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker, who gave it the name Rhombotides polyzona; it was later transferred to the genus Acanthurus, becoming Acanthurus polyzona. Acanthurus polyzona is a laterally flattened fish ...

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. This species reaches a maximum length of about. ...

Mauve Stinger - Pelagia noctiluca

Mauve stinger, Pelagia noctiluca, is a jellyfish in the family Pelagiidae and the only currently recognized species in the genus Pelagia. It is typically known in English as the mauve stinger, but other common names are purple-striped jelly (causing potential confusion with chrysaora colorata), purple stinger, purple people eater, purple jellyfish, luminous jellyfish  ...

Black feather starfish

Crinoids are marine animals that make up the class Crinoidea, one of the classes of the phylum Echinodermata, which also includes the starfish, brittle stars, sea urchins and sea cucumbers. Those crinoids which, in their adult form, are attached to the sea bottom by a stalk are commonly called sea lilies, while the unstalked forms are called feather stars or comatulids, ...

Sarcophyton ehrenbergi and Sarcophyton trocheliophorum

Sarcophyton ehrenbergi  and Sarcophyton trocheliophorum, Marenzeller 1886 are a octocorals of the Alcyoniidae family, commonly referred to as Leather Soft Mushroom, Slimy Leather Coral, Fleshy soft coral. A colony of leathery coral is stiff, hard and inflexible. It is composed of tiny polyps projecting from a shared leathery tissue. Members of the family may have ...

Humpback Whales of Samaná

I went to the Samaná Peninsula, in Santo Domingo, to film the Humpback Whales in one of the world's breeding grounds for these whales. During this period, the Humpback Whales stay until the welps acquire, after the nursing period, their autonomy, but above all to protect them from the Orcas, their main predators. The province is on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in the northeastern part of ...

Octopus in den

In this short video we show you a "crafty octopus". That these animals are very intelligent is now well known to everyone; in this case the octopus he are organized itself with two dens close to each other. But if we carefully observe the video we can think that it is the same den with two exits, the main one (the one with all the grouped shells that the octopus generally uses to protect itself) and the secondary one that could be the "emergency exit". ...

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. Siganus punctatus was first formally described in 1801 as ...