| Most coral heads have clouds of resident anthias or damselfish, but here we find a cloud of aggressive clown anemone fish. |
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| The sites are home to a vast variety of reef dwellers such as the damselfish, angelfish, butterflyfish and sweetlips. |
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| The mast rose up behind it, pointing to the sun above and masked only by dense shoals of damselfish, a fantastic sight. |
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| Many small fish, including juvenile fairy basslets and damselfish, retreat into crinoid arms when bigger fish appear. |
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| Grouper are close to the top of the fish food chain, anthias and damselfish near the bottom, so there must be smaller fish somewhere. |
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| I can see small schools of brightly coloured damselfish dart in and out of their coral shelters. |
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| Dorsey chose to work with the bicolor damselfish because they are not considered a threatened or endangered species. |
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| There is no shortage of choice, a good variety of butterflyfish, an unusual striped damselfish, puffers and a shoal of small barracuda. |
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| Because both cleaners and damselfish are diurnal, cleaning activities only occur during daylight periods. |
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| Many male damselfish, wrasses, and angelfish, among others, maintain harems. |
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| In the open water just off the reef, great swarms of damselfish cavorted, collecting plankton while barracuda cruised by trying to select an easy meal. |
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| An increase in territory quality has been shown to increase the aggressive intensity of S. planifrons, a damselfish closely related to the beaugregory damselfish. |
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| Schools of damselfish and bamboofish swim in the upper part, while in the deeper parts algae, sponges, and Lophophorata prevail. |
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| This environment provides numerous shelters for small fish, such as the damselfish or clownfish protected in their anemone. |
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| Some damselfish are promiscuous, and still others are monogamous. |
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| Up to 25 percent of all fish on reefs are cardinalfish, and damselfish compose up to 50 percent of the total fish biomass on reefs, the study says. |
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| In the same experiment with resident damselfish, the damsels abandoned the reef. |
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| There are numerous schools of damselfish and bamboofish as well as many types of benthos fish. |
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| Schools of damselfish and cardinal fish are present throughout the dive and it is common to meet lobsters and other crustaceans. |
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| I feel clumsy when I try to make my very first underwater picture of gorgonians and damselfish. |
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| Role of habitat complexity in mediating predation by the gray damselfish Abudefduf sordidus on epiphytal amphipods. |
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| Chrysiptera albata, a new species of damselfish from the Phoenix Islands, Central Pacific Ocean. |
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| That could bring a rainbow assortment of hundreds of live anemones, blennies, gobies, wrasses, tangs, damselfish, goatfish, lion fish, crabs, clams, marine snails and spiny lobsters to Central Park West and 77th Street. |
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| In damselfish, light waves bounce between thin plates within these cells. |
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| Nearby were areas unaffected by the carbon dioxide seeps perfect control communities for experiments with their lower acidity: pH 7.98 to 8.02. Two damselfish species and two cardinalfishes were scrutinised. |
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| For example, when attacked by damselfish, an octopus reacts by imitating a sea snake, a damselfish predator. All this allows the mimic octopus to be bolder than its cousins. |
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| Slightly larger damselfish, cardinals, butterflyfish and a dazzling varity of wrasse of every size and description are equally common, sometimes in uncountable quantity. |
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| The upper part is inhabited by small oily fish and damselfish. |
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| However, the main highlight of the show is a small damselfish, seemingly insignificant at first sight, but which turned out to be an endemic specie of Rodrigues. |
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| The atlantic damselfish tend to regroup in the vertical of rocky sea beds. |
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| Large grouper, barracuda, jacks along with multitudes of damselfish. |
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| Coral Trout such as the anemone fish and the domino damselfish can bark loudly, even though they may only be around 10cm in length. And they are not the only fish that can make a racket. |
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| There are schools of bamboofish, damselfish, dories and many small creatures such as small snails, young sea urchins, sea cucumbers and sea stars. |
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| Coral reefs are home to a variety of tropical or reef fish, such as the colorful parrotfish, angelfish, damselfish, and butterflyfish. |
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| There are rainbow angelfish, pastel parrotfish, lapis-blue damselfish, silvery jacks, yellow porgies and translucent needlefish. |
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| Damselfish make up almost half, with angelfish, surgeonfish, wrasses, gobies, and butterfly fish accounting for another 25 to 30 percent. |
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