The Tugboat and Surrounding Reef

Below are some photos from a dive at The Tugboat, near Tintamarre on January 11th. As usual, both the wreck and the nearby reef were filled with a variety of tropical fish. A special treat was a pike blenny hiding in a tube of coral skeleton in the sandy area beside the wreck. The visible portion of the fish was about 1 cm.

Bluestriped Grunt (<em>Haemulon sciurus</em>)
Saddled Blenny (<em>Malacoctenus triangulatus</em>)
Tomtate (<em>Haemulon aurolineatum</em>)
Gray Snapper (<em>Lutjanus griseus</em>)
Some type of feather duster in clusters with crowns retracted
Some type of feather duster in clusters with crowns retracted
Pillar Coral (<em>Dendrogyra cylindrus</em>)
Initial Phase Redband Parrotfish (<em>Sparisoma aurofrenatum</em>)
Blue Chromis (<em>Chromis cyanea</em>)
Mutton Snapper (<em>Lutjanus analis</em>)
Rock Hind (<em>Epinephelus adscensionis</em>)
Honeycomb Cowfish (<em>Acanthostracion polygonia</em>)
Black Hamlet (<em>Hypoplectrus nigricans</em>)
Bluestriped Grunt (<em>Haemulon sciurus</em>) with dark patches that may be from some type of disease
Pike Blenny (<em>Chaenopsis</em> sp.)
Pike Blenny (<em>Chaenopsis</em> sp.)
Barnacle on rope

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