Cozumel 2007 Photos

 

Yellow Stingray        Bill    Charlotte    Debbie and Chuck Nearhoof        El faro de San Miguel - the Lighthouse     Rough File Clam    Blue Tang - (surgeon fish) The blue tang has three color phases. A juvenile is bright yellow. It changes to a mixture of yellow and blue during adolescence. As the fish matures the color darkens to a bright blue or purplish-gray with a yellow caudal fin. Gray longitudinal lines are located in the flank region with blue dorsal and anal fins banded with orange-brown diagonal lines. The caudal spine is yellow to pale yellow or white. At night, Blue tangs display white vertical stripes.    Sponge - Although they may look plant-like, sponges are the simplest of multi-cellular animals. A sponge is a bottom-dwelling creature which attaches itself to something solid in a place where it can, hopefully, receive enough food to grow.    Cottonwick Grunt    Seahorse - A seahorse can consume up to 3,000 brine shrimp in one day.    Green Turtle    Learn to dive with D & R Divers    Crab    Queen Triggerfish    Blue Tang - (surgeon fish) The blue tang has three color phases. A juvenile is bright yellow. It changes to a mixture of yellow and blue during adolescence. As the fish matures the color darkens to a bright blue or purplish-gray with a yellow caudal fin. Gray longitudinal lines are located in the flank region with blue dorsal and anal fins banded with orange-brown diagonal lines. The caudal spine is yellow to pale yellow or white. At night, Blue tangs display white vertical stripes.    Anemone    turtle    Porcupine Fish    Spotted Drum - A spotted drum can vibrate its swim bladders and produce a low pitched drum-like sound.    Four eyed Butterfly fish    octopus    Eagle Ray    Cozumel's Wreck - Felipe Xicotencatl    Sand Dollar - A sand dollar is an invertebrate marine animal. It is a type of cake urchin. The sand dollar's mouth is located in the center of the body underneath the animal. On the top surface of the sand dollar there is a pattern of 5 or 6 slots called lanules that go through the outer skeleton.    Reef Star    Raymundo at Felipe Xicotencatl - Winning Photgraph at Scuba Club Cozumel!    Fish are friends not food.    LEARN TO DIVE WITH D & R DIVERS!    Anemone    Butterfly Fish    Brittle Star    French Angel Fish    Spotted Eel    Charlotte    photo taken by Manuel Briceno    Crab    SAND DIVER    Spotted Eagle Ray    eel    Scrawled Cowfish    Peacock Flounder-The peacock flounder changes its color and the pattern on its skin to exactly match the sea floor. One of the eyes recognizes the pattern of its surroundings. If this eye is covered by sand, the peacock flounder can’t camouflage itself. Each eye can move independently, seeing forward & back at the same time. A baby flounder has an eye on each side of its face. But as the fish grows, one eye moves until both eyes sit together on the same side of its head. (left side for a peacock flounder)    Francisco    Grey Angelfish        Learn to dive with D & R Divers    Hermit Crab        Spotted Eagle Ray    LOBSTERS ARE FRIENDS. NOT FOOD.    Photo taken by Raymundo Calderon    Octopus - How many hearts does an octopus have? 3. They have one systemic heart and two branchial hearts.    Paul            Richard            snake eel    Spotted Eagle Ray    Squirrelfish        Harlequin Bass    photo taken by Raymundo Calderon        Blue Tang - (surgeon fish) The blue tang has three color phases. A juvenile is bright yellow. It changes to a mixture of yellow and blue during adolescence. As the fish matures the color darkens to a bright blue or purplish-gray with a yellow caudal fin. Gray longitudinal lines are located in the flank region with blue dorsal and anal fins banded with orange-brown diagonal lines. The caudal spine is yellow to pale yellow or white. At night, Blue tangs display white vertical stripes.        piñata    Nurse Shark - A female Nurse Shark can produce a litter of about 20-25 pups every other year. - Did you know sharks are heavier than water? Most sharks sink when they aren't swimming, but the Nurse shark has adapted so it can "rest" on the ocean floor.     Scuba Club Cozumel - Dive Shop    Juvenile Spotted Drum - A spotted drum can vibrate its swim bladders and produce a low pitched drum-like sound.    Scuba Club Cozumel    Hibiscus        Dakota Songers    Octopus    Toad Fish            Hibiscus            Hibiscus    Crab        Queen Angelfish    Spotted Morey Eel    White-spotted filefish - The white-spotted filefish can change its color pattern in a few seconds.    Juvenile gary Angel fish - Juvenile gray angelfish are black with five yellow bands on the head and body, extending onto the fins. The yellow band on the head head of the juvenile gray angelfish runs through the mouth to the chin with a yellow ring around the lips. The juvenile gray angelfish has a square tail terminating in a white or transparent margin. As the juvenile grows into an adult, it loses its yellow bands and becomes a uniform gray to grayish-brown in color. Scales develop a large gray or brown spot in the center and are edged in pale gray. The head, chest, pelvic, and pectoral fins become dark brown while the chin and mouth region turn white. The fins are dark brown, becoming darker along the edges with the exception of the dark caudal fin that has a white or pale gray margin. The pectoral fins of the gray angelfish have a yellow inner face.    Smooth Trunkfish    Stingray - Stingrays are rarely seen alone. Plenty of fishes follow stingrays around because as they swim along the bottom, they stir up plenty of food to go around.    Juvenile Spotted Drum - A spotted drum can vibrate its swim bladders and produce a low pitched drum-like sound.    Parrotfish---The name "parrotfish" is derived from their fused teeth, which bear close resemblance to a bird's beak. Their teeth are specialized for scraping algae and invertebrates from coral and rocks. Another set of teeth (pharyngeal teeth), are located on the floor and roof of their throats. The pharyngeal teeth crush the ingested materials.

 

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