Trip to Cozumel, Mexico
- April 2009
Scroll down to see pictures of shore diving with Scuba Club Cozumel
Sharptail Eel
Spotted Moray Eel
Sharpnose Puffer
Conchfish (Astrapogon
stellatus)
this one was about an inch long swimming under a Queen Conch shell
Juvenile High-hats
Jessica with Octopus
Octopus and juvenile angel
Caribbean Reef Octopus
Comes out at night to hunt
BalloonFish
Notice the two bumble-bee shrimp(s) at the foot of the conch
Sculpted Slipper Lobster
Cowry (Cowrie)
Spotted
Scorpionfish
Spotted Scorpionfish
(Scorpaena plumieri)
Arrow crab with anemone
Yellowline arrow crab (Stenorhynchus seticornis)
"sea pearl" aka "sailor's eyeball" - a one-celled algae
Jessica and a
Sunken Mayan concrete pyramid just off the dock (and to the south) of Scuba Club
Cozumel
Porcupinefish - Hiding inside one of the concrete 'reefs'
Blue Tang & French Angel
(the little fish in front of the tang is a flamefish)
Barred Cardinalfish (Apogon binotatus)
Banded clinging crab (Mitrax cinctimanus) also known as Anemone Crab
Although it is a bit hard to see the whole crab, I was struck by the smiley face
/ kool-aid picture on it's back.
Nimble Spray Crab - very flat
Sculpted Slipper Lobster
Yellow Stingray
Yellow Stingray on night dive
Stareye
Hermit Crab (Dardanus venosus)
Reef Squirrelfish
Harlequin Bass
Pistol shrimp or red snapping shrimp (Alpheus armatus)
Golden Coral Shrimp
Sand Tilefish
A pair of divers on a twilight shore dive and a pair of Spotfin Butterflyfish
Scuba Club Cozumel
This is a worm, a sabellariid, tube-dwelling polychaete worm
