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Common Bluestripe Snapper – Azzannatore striato – Lutjanus kasmira – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2023-12-09-18h34m26s084
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Common Bluestripe Snapper

The Common Bluestripe Snapper, (Lutjanus kasmira), or bluebanded snapper, bluestripe sea perch, fourline snapper, blue-line snapper is a species of snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It is native to the Indian Ocean from the coast of Africa and the Red Sea to the central Pacific Ocean. It is commercially important and sought as a game fish. It can also be found in the aquarium trade.
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Initial phase Rusty parrotfish – Pesce Pappagallo rugginoso giovane – Scarus ferrugineus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-21-14h36m45s275
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Rusty Parrotfish

The Rusty Parrotfish measures up to 40 cm. in length. Two colour patterns may be distinguished. While the terminal phase is multicoloured, bright in colour, mostly blue-green, the initial phase, in which frequently these fishes are seen in groups, is brownish (hence the common name) with light and dark bands and a yellow tail.
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Thumbprint emperor – pesce Imperatore dalla macchia nera – Lethrinus harak – www.intotheblue.it-2023-12-10-15h55m05s963
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Thumbprint Emperor

The Thumbprint Emperor, Lethrinus harak, or blackblotch emperor, blackspot emperor, is a species  of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Lethrinidae. This species is found in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. This fish lives in depths of up to 20 metres in areas with sandy bottoms, coral rubble, and in mangroves, inshore seagrass areas, in lagoons and channels. It is non-migratory and forms small schools or may be solitary.
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Sweeper fish – Pesce Spazzino – Pempheris oualensis – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-14-17h57m11s567
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Sweeper fish

Sweeper fish, 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. Sweepers are occasionally kept in marine aquaria.
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Checkerboard wrasse – Tordo scacchiera – Halichoeres hortulanus – wwwintotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2023-12-05-18h00m59s343
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Checkerboard Wrasse

The Checkerboard Wrasse (Halichoeres hortulanus) is a fish belonging to the wrasse family. It is native to the area including the Indian Ocean to central Pacific Ocean. The Checkerboard Wrasse is a small sized fish that can reach a maximum length of 27 centimetres. Both its sex and appearance change during its life, and the colouring at each stage is rather variable based on location.
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Pesce Farfalla Mezzaluna – Raccoon Butterflyfish – Chaetodon lunula – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2026-02-07-11h15m48s025
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Raccoon Butterflyfish

Chaetodon lunula is a nocturnal species that usually lives in small groups. Adults feed mainly on nudibranchs and small invertebrates, but also on algae and coral polyps. This species can be found widely throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific region. This species prefers seaward reefs and shallow reef flats of lagoon, at a depth not over 30 m.
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Slingjaw wrasse – Labro boccalunga o Labride insidiatore – Epibulus insidiator – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2023-12-02-15h15m37s327
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Slingjaw wrasse

The Slingjaw wrasse (Epibulus insidiator) is a species of wrasse from the family Labridae which is native to the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean where it occurs around coral reefs. This species is of minor importance to local commercial fisheries and can be found in the aquarium trade. Relatively mundane at first glance, this fish is notable for its highly protrusible jaws.
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Common Remora – Remora comune – Remora remora – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-20-17h22m00s563
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Common Remora

The Common Remora does not seem to have a negative overall effect on its host. The host provides the remora with fast-moving water to bathe its gills, a steady flow of food, transportation, and protection. The remora benefits the host by feeding in part on some of its parasites, but increases its hydrodynamical drag. Common Remora is commonly found in warm marine waters from all over the world.
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Blunt Arm Sea Star – Stella Marina a Braccia Smussate – Pentaster obtusatus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-03-08-17h34m09s891
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Blunt Arm Sea Star Pentaster obtusatus

Tle Blunt Arm Sea Star, Pentaster obtusatus, is a starfish belonging to the phylum Echinodermata, class Asteroidea, family Oreasteridae, which lives in the tropical Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean including the Philippine Islands and French Polynesia. The size can reach 20-25 cm. It is present in sandy areas, in the seagrass beds and in shallow areas where macroalgae are present at depths between 5 and 20 m.
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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.
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Sarcophyton trocheliophorum – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-03-09-17h08m27s526
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Sarcophyton trocheliophorum

The Sarcophyton trocheliophorum, Marenzeller 1886, is an octocoral of the Alcyoniidae family, (very common in tropical coral reefs; the video you are watching was filmed in the Pacific Ocean, specifically in the Philippines islands of El Nido, Panglao and Oslob) 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
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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.
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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.
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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).
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Blaktip reef Shark – Squalo Pinna nera – Carcharhinus melanopterus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-26-10h52m01s582
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Blacktip reef Shark

The Blacktip reef Shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus) is a species of requiem shark; this species prefers shallow, inshore waters. Its exposed first dorsal fin is a common sight in the region. The blacktip reef shark is usually found over reef ledges and sandy flats. It typically attains a length of 1.6 m. Like other sharks, the females are larger than the males.
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Yellow-lipped sea Krait – Serpente di mare Bocca Gialla – Laticauda colubrina – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-03-17-18h36m22s935
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Colubrine sea krait

The yellow-lipped sea krait (Laticauda colubrina), also known as the banded sea krait or colubrine sea krait, is a species of venomous sea snake found in tropical Indo-Pacific oceanic waters. The snake has distinctive black stripes and a yellow snout, with a paddle-like tail for use in swimming. It spends much of its time under water to hunt, but returns to land to digest, rest, and reproduce.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Pulsanting Xenid Coral – Corallo Xenia Pulsante – Heteroxenia fuscescens – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-03-12-16h50m53s825
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Pulsanting Xenid - Heteroxenia fuscescens

The pulsating xenid (Heteroxenia fuscescens) is a species of soft coral in the family Xeniidae. The polyps of Heteroxenia fuscescens grow to form large clumping colonies up to 60 centimetres (24 in) across. Its polyp stalks are approximately 5 centimetres (2.0 in) long, each stalk ending in a ring of large feathery pinnate tentacles, eight per polyp, as is typical of octocorals. Polyps pulsate rhythmically around 40 times/ minute, moving their tentacles in a "pumping" or "pulsating" fashion.
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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.
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Magnificent sea Anemone – Anemone Magnifica – Heteractis magnifica – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-29-11h44m32s410
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Heteractis magnifica

Heteractis magnifica, also known by the common names Magnificent sea Anemone or Ritteri Anemone, is a species of sea anemone belonging to the Stichodactylidae family native to the Indo-Pacific area. The Magnificent sea Anemone is characterized by a flared oral disc, which reaches between 20 and 50 cm in diameter,
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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.
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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.
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Cernia a nido d’ape – Honeycomb grouper – Epinephelus merra – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2023-05-28-10h42m51s068
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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.
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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.
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Colonial Stony Coral – Dipsastraea speciosa – Corallo Pietroso Coloniale – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-02-17-10h38m40s330
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Dipsastraea speciosa

Dipsastraea speciosa (previously called Favia speciosa) is a species of colonial stony coral in the family Merulinidae. It is found in tropical waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans. Dipsastraea speciosa has rounded to very elongated corallites, with diameters of 10 to 15 mm.
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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

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 ...
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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 demersal marine fish belonging to the family Tetraodontidae. It is found in shallow water in the Indo-Pacific region. Arothron stellatus is a very large pufferfish which grows up ...
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Coral reef of Oslob in the Philippines – Barriera corallina a Oslob nelle Filippine – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-02-12-10h30m20s130
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Coral reef of Oslob in the Philippines

The video you are watching was taken in a coral reef in Oslob, Philippines. The coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals. Reefs are formed of colonies of coral polyps held together by calcium carbonate. Most coral reefs are built from stony corals, whose polyps cluster in groups. ...
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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. ...
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Sweeper fish – Pesci Spazzino – Pempheris oualensis – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2024-01-28-17h36m20s942
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Sweeper fish - Pempheris oualensis

Sweepers, Pempheris oualensis Sweeper fish, 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 ...
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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 (Plectorhinchus orientalis), also known as the oriental sweetlips, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sweetlips belonging to the subfamily Plectorhinchinae, one of two subfamilies in the family Haemulidae. It is native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. The Indian Ocean oriental sweetlips has fleshy lips ...
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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. This species reaches a maximum length of about. ...
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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; it has also been found in Samoa, Micronesia, Seychelles, Ryukyu islands and on the coasts of East Africa. Young people prefer areas with a lot of aquatic vegetation, adults are often found in areas rich ...
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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, also known as the Blue trim parrotfish, Cream parrotfish, Globe-headed parrotfish, Green blotched parrotfish, Yellow scale parrotfish, and Bluechin parrotfish, 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. ...
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