Last series - fishes... The more developed form of the marine realm, being the vertebrates. Here, I'm showcasing the juvenile fishes as they tend to be more interesting and cute!
Feathery filefish - an amazingly pretty fish. Filefish is known to stay very still with the substrate of their choice. Like this feathery filefish, their choice of camouflage includes flotsam or bunch of filamentous algae. My last trip to Cyrene, I spotted two adult feathery and boy are they BIG! And read about my observations of their camouflage methods - active camouflage I might add...
Blenny? - Until now, I still have not figured out this fish. I had assumed that it may be the bicolor blenny? No idea... I have better photos on my blog post. It has very interesting propping structures beneath its head.
Seamoth (juvenile) - FINALLY! My first seamoth sighting in Singapore and I found two of them on this trip! Unlike the streamline fishes, the seamoth is laterally flattened and its pectoral fins are modified to become a fan-shaped. So far, I haven't seen it swim actively before and it is described that they 'walk' on the sand. It's quite slow! haha... In this video, the fish barely moved. :P
Three-spot dascyllus (Dascyllus trimaculatus) - I had first encounter this name when I was studying in Bali on a genetics course. This fish was one of the study organism collected in Indonesia for genetic phylogeographic study. When I finally had the idea that what I was seeing was THE dascyllus fish, I was wowed! Our shores do not fail to surprise me and keep me wanting more... It's such a shy fish (and very black), it's so hard to photograph so I decided a video does more justice to its cuteness. :)
This marks my first series of organism videos! I shall be taking more videos and share more behavioural antics from our marine critters! :)
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