Comments on images (numbered from top left to bottom right):

1/  A Black Boxfish.  This interesting species has a solid box-like skeleton, with only a few obvious holes!
2/  A Greasy-Grouper, well camouflaged as it rests on the reef-edge.
3/  A Blue-Clam, its mantle gently moving to sift the plankton.
4/ A Stars-and-Stripes Pufferfish.
5/  A Sabre Squirrelfish - the largest of the Sqirrelfish.  These fish are mostly nocturnal, sheltering under rocks and coral-heads by day.
6/  Pencil Urchins (From Hawaii - but they are particularly attractive - so we included them).
7/  A Surge Wrasse (around 25 cm long).  There are many different Wrasse, some very similar and difficult to distinguish.
8/  An unusual fish, found in various colours.  Uses its markings to blend-in with and swim with larger fish for protection.
9/  Sergeant Major - no guessing why its called that!
10/  A Surge-Damsel, found in shallow lagoons.
11/  A Blue-yellow Damsel (imaginatively named!).
12/  A couple of Blue-fin Jack swimming past.  These 70 cm - 1 m fish swim by in shoals, and can be quite frightening as they appear out of the deeper water, and charge by!
13/ A Sea Cucumber.  Very strange things - and apparently in some tropical places they are eaten raw and considered a delicacy!

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