, Thumbnails of the Seafriends 2004 CD - Part 1
by Dr J Floor Anthoni (2005)
www.seafriends.org.nz/scrntx03/index.htm

This document contains thumbnails of the first half of all 700+ images in the photo slide show of the Seafriends 2004 CD. You can browse the images for the ones you are looking for. Click on an image or the linked photo ID to see the screen-sized image (works only on the CD). You can search all text by clicking Edit/Find in page and entering a short search string. You can also print this document for future reference. Use special ink jet paper for best results. Click here for part 2.

.
'
 

f000904: leatherjackets are inquisitive

f001226: blue maomao closeup

f001227: parore are plant eaters that always seem to smile. Here is one in its striped business suit.

f001820: parore on their way home to their sleeping den

f002608: blue cod resting on the sand

f002610: blue cod about to yawn

f002613: a blue cod's big yawn shows small teeth but a large mouth cavity and teeth on gill bones

f003312: an exceptionally large spotted stargazer, its belly filled with spotties

f014508: crayfish caught inside a cray pot

f004826: orange finger sponges on a sand-covered deep reef

f003215: a red rock crab posturing defiantly

f003401: Peron's seaweed crab, well camouflaged

f003404: male Peron's seaweed crab has large nippers

f003718: large purple dahlia anemone, Isocradactys magna

f003900: potbellied seahorse on flapjack seaweed

f003911: NZ mantis shrimp leaving its burrow for a quick dash in search of food

f003921: a small paddle crab moving fast over the sand

f004625: a red rock lobster in solitude before moulting

f004715: male goatfish in spawning colours rivals tropical fish

f004812: deep reef habitat with clean sand and a rich variety of sponges

f004820: from left to right: yellow nipple sponge, orange finger sponge, yellow boring sponge.

f005312: a hunting pack of 70cm kingfish, each individually marked for recognition

f005814: an eagle ray ready for immediate takeoff

f006019: a large john dory hiding in ambush

f006036: a goatfish social group: 4 young ones up front, 5 females, 1 young male and 1 ready to spawn

f006102: a large crayfish with an acoustic transponder on its back

f006118: young giant boarfish still have long back fins

f006124: young giant boarfish and one tarakihi hang-gliding on their breast and pelvic fins

f006130: a large deep-water mantis shrimp

f006333: closeup of a large mantis shrimp shows double eyes and complicated utensils

f006901: comb star on volcanic sand at 15m depth

f007205: a great variety of seaweeds, Mayor Island

f007206: a rich variety of seaweeds, Mayor Island

f007635: orange hermit crab with blocked antennas

f007700: 'Mr Perfect' snapper, the idol of Goat Island marine reserve

f007701: 'Mr Perfect' surrounded by other fishes

f007721: a large silver drummer inspects the photographer

f007734: a group of large silver drummers

f008114: white fan-gills of carpet tube worms

f008137: orange hermit crab in tiger shell by a red finger sponge

f008513: a young snapper has taken residence on the reef

f008714: kelpfish or hiwihiwi lives in turbulent water

f009012: male pigfish in business mood, has its white spot almost turned off

f009226: red rock crab demolishing discarded bait fishell by a red finger sponge

f010000: female pigfish has stripes and no white tail spot. It was once thought a separate species.

f010720: standing room only in this populated crayfish den

f010725: female crayfish mounting males before moulting and mating

f011619: charonia trumpet shell is coarse on the outside but smooth and beautiful within

f011703: male bottlenose dolphin passing close by

f011707: male bottlenose dolphin showing scratches from playfighting

f011708: bottlenose dolphins inspecting the photographer. Note their individual markings.

f011933: a formation of short-tailed stingrays and one albino practising hang-gliding inside an archway

f012307: an orange hermit crab with checkered antennas

f012313: robsonella is a very small octopus

f012529: a demoiselle sleeping by night in a very beautiful bedroom of bryozoa and other species.

f012535: sleeping demoiselle has turned its white spots off

f012703: gorgonean fans and other filter-feeding organisms in a sheltered archway

f012813: cathedral light around a stalked kelp

f012819: sea lettuce

f012937: sea lettuce

f013023: mussels on ropes in a mussel farm

f013815: diver in Rogers Cave, Goat Island

f013929: common prawn swimming forward with the swimmerets under its tail

f014505: stressed crayfish nervously seeking a way out of a cray pot

f014620: live paua shell polished by pebbles during storms

f015425: pregnant male seahorse holding on to debris

f015513: colourful moult of a purple rock crab in a rock pool

f015728: closeup of the mouth parts of a young crayfish

f015915: seahorse aristocrat

f016210: swirling bull kelp in misty water

f016211: bull kelp silhouette shows tapered fronds

f017101: a sponge garden of various species on rocks periodically covered in sand

f017113: bastard red cod inside and outside a cave, fearing a large conger eel deep inside

f017130: butterfly perch in resting colours

f017329: lesser shovelnose lobster also known as killer prawn, on an orange finger sponge

f017330: juvenile killer prawn on an orange finger sponge

f017809: popular snapper named 'Panda' has black eyes and a dark snout

f017812: 'Panda' the dark-eyed snapper in the Goat Island marine reserve

f017817: mature parore in pinstriped business suit

f017912: blue cod have no swim bladders, reason why they sit on the bottom

f017923: 'Monkeyface', childrens' favourite

f018331: moult of a killer prawn

f018605: a mature half crab or porcelain crab

f018706: closeup of a red rock crab

f018732: deep water long-armed spidercrab found in a deep cave

f018827: orange hermit crab with checkered antennas

f018834: red bristle crab normally hides under stones

f018925: unidentified hermit crab

f019006: lamp shells or brachiopods

f019107: white tentacled Actinothoe anemones

f019220: northern conger eel kills its prey by slamming its jaws shut

f019300: a beautiful cluster of cup corals

f019331: red beadlet or horse anemones (Actinia) live just above low tide level

f019415: solanderia hydroid tree

f019426: beautiful zoanthid anemones have cloned themselves over a gorgonean tree

f019428: gorgonean tree with yellow skeleton and purple coral polyps

f019609: endearing porcupine fish has large eyes

f019612: porcupine fish have velvet skins. Their scales have evolved into spines.

f019624: a bouquet of yellow zoanthid anemones fighting a red carpet spnge for dominance

f019707: Spanish lobster or shovelnose lobster hiding underneath an overhang

f019708: the Spanish lobster is much less common than crayfish. Its antennas are flat and short, enabling it to hide.

f019816: mature male demoiselle guarding its nest

f019931: red moki browse by sucking small crustaceans out of the pink turf

f019936: large red moki sucking the pink turf in search of small crustaceans

f020004: black angelfish infested with sea lice on its snout

f020010: small trevally supplementing their planktonic food by fossicking the sand

f020017: a male Sandagers wrasse or king wrasse may survive for decades

f020027: short tailed stingray skirting the kelp forest

f020219: the banded coral shrimp advertises its cleaning services with long white antennas

f020221: a banded coral shrimp may swim onto one's outstretched hand to investigate

f020222: banded coral shrimp swimming back to its hideout

f020225: banded coral shrimp looking like a helicopter

f020505: grey moray eel - defensive but inquisitive

f020509: albino female short tailed stingray

f020510: albinoism is reasonably common in stingrays. Notice this stingray's three stings.

f020511: short tailed stingray formation and one albino

f020518: primnoides beadlet coral at 40m depth

f020519: primnoides closeup

f020609: Sandagers wrasse closeup

f020611: male green wrasse

f020618: old male goatfish has many subtle colours

f020621: sleeping male demoiselle has turned its white spots off

f020700: sleeping pink maomao has white blotches on its pyjamas

f020916: this coralline alga is a red seaweed with a skeleton of hard limestone

f020919: a variety of coralline algae each consisting of flexibly jointed hard limestone sections

f021005: eagle ray gliding over the sand

f021023: a restng school of jack mackerels

f021026: dense school of mature jack mackerels

f021031: the sideline of a jack mackerel has a sharp z-bend

f021126: dense school of demoiselles

f021230: zebra frogfish or striped anglerfish swims clumsily

f021231: breast fins of zebra frogfish adapted into hands. Its skin looks furry.

f021234: frogfish first dorsal spine adapted into a fishing rod with a fleshy skin-worm attached as bait

f021312: white tentacled anemone

f021315: spectacular magenta jewel anemones

f021317: dense magenta jewel anemones smothering a railing

f021328: john dory surprised by night

f021601: small seahorse among parchment tube worms

f021610: smooth red swimming crab by night

f021623: fishing lines providing a tail hold to a seahorse

f021632: a love affair between two hermit crabs. the smaller female is captured until she moults

f021935: crayfish diver leaving a cave with his bounty in a bag

f022018: blue maomao's perspective of people feeding the fishes

f022024: a school of blue maomao waiting for food from above

f022131: a small group of blue maomao resting

f022424: nesting male demoiselles (blue) awaiting visits from females (grey)

f022433: demoiselles in the wavewash zone with golden bladder wrack above and flapjack below and in foreground

f022510: black angelfish shows white ear patch as warning

f022512: closeup of black angelfish showing white ear patch

f022604: large female sand octopus guarding her strings of eggs hanging from the ceiling of her den

f022611: resting mature goatfish

f022613: resting goatfish in bright colours, large males, smaller females and immature young

f022614: diver patiently approaching resting goatfish

f022615: diver tolerated by resting goatfish

f022620: a rare moment

f022713: bigeyes disperse as a diver enters a cabin of the Rainbow Warrior shipwreck

f022818: diver approaching a sand octopus which has cannibalised another held within its web

f022824: diver and sand octopus inside a derelict cray pot

f022826: diver and sand octopus

f022835: diver and goatfish on a murky dive

f022837: diver standing in tall ecklonia stalked kelp

f022925: a school of young demoiselles

f023017: a magical moment in a small cove

f023024: freediver exploring sun-lit depths

f023124: diver and blue maomao inside Blue Maomao Arch

f023131: diver and blue maomao inside Blue Maomao Arch

f023214: diver meeting longtail stingray

f023224: diver and demoiselle

f023232: diver and a mixed school of young blue maomao and demoiselles

f023233: diver and blue maomao

f023304: blue maomao and trevally above lessonia strap kelp

f023305: young blue maomao, resting

f023306: young blue maomao school

f023314: freediver and young blue maomao above lessonia strap weed

f023317: diver and a school of young blue maomao

f023525: 7 cm sharp-nosed pufferfish or clown toado is both pretty and endearing

f023611: school of pink maomao

f023612: school of pink maomao

f023620: pink maomao

f023625: diver and pink maomao

f023629: diver attracting demoiselles' curiosity

f023807: long-fin boarfish

f023810: long-fin boarfish

f023817: a posie of yellow zoanthid anemones

f023819: pink jewel anemones among encrusting sponges

f024006: exploring the air bubble in Bernie's Cave

f024022: diver and mado

f024109: a school of red or golden snapper

f024134: blue maomao in cave

f024205: demoiselles and blue maomao resting inside an archway

f024221: young koheru and diver

f024321: predatory roboastra nudibranch hunts other sea slugs

f024326: tambja morosa nudibranchs eating blue-green bugula bryozoa

f024329: tambja morosa sea slug

f024506: 8 cm sharpnosed pufferfish can inflate itself, becoming a little golfball between snout and tail

f024704: diver and young koheru

f024809: mature porcelain crab, 5 cm

f024810: young sand flounder, almost invisible

f024819: male potbellied sea horse

f025013: diver demonstrates large sea hare Aplysia dactylomela

f025120: scorpion fish's eye, always prowling

f025133: mature yellow moray eel

f025226: little zoanthid anemones on a gorgonean skeleton

f025227: zoanthid fan

f025229: closeup of purple gorgonean fan

f025231: half-banded perch

f025233: skin texture of the firebrick star

f025236: two sea slugs mating and a third one underneath. Tambja morosa

f026010: diver and large leatherjacket

f026013: diver and large leatherjacket

f026223: seahorse and shrimp hunting for small bugs

f026224: female potbellied sea horse has no brood pouch

f026233: policeman crab, 4 cm, normally burrows in the sand

f026236: policeman crab, 4cm, normally hides burrowed in sand

---

South Island

f026502: Hectors dolphin resting at the surface

f026703: bull kelp and other seaweeds, South Island

f026724: budding bull kelp and other South Island seaweeds

f026726: bull kelp

f026801: unidentified jellyfish

f026804: unidentified jellyfish, but text not place

f026808:unidentified jellyfish, but text not placed

f026809:unidentified jellyfish, but text not placed

f026810: unidentified jellyfish, but text not placed

f026811: unidentified jellyfish, but text not place

f026923: stalk-eyed mudcrab has beautiful colours

f026930: stalk-eyed mudcrab in defiant pose, warming itself in the evening sunshine

f026934: hairy-handed crab blowing bubbles

f026921: stalk-eyed mudcrab is found in eelgrass

f027102: a confusion of South Island seaweeds

f027110: silhouetted bull seal

f210131: bull seal drying in the sun

f210202: exhausted

f210207: Sssht!

f210210: drooling fur seal

f210235: tranquil reflections

f210523: yellow-eye penguin track trudges up the beach

f210712: king bull seal

f210719: beachmaster at last

 

f027520: water clarity in Pupu Springs allows one to see up to 70m far

f027037: just born baby NZ fur seal waiting for the return of its mother

f026435: diver dwarfed by massive bull kelp

f027118:

f027119: a variety of green and red seaweeds

f027120: a seal arching its back, framed by southern seaweeds

f027123: fur seal coming home from distant feeding waters

f027507: swimmer caressing longfinned eels

f027512: swimmer and large longin eels

f027517: freediver exploring the Anatoki River

f027520: water clarity in Pupu Springs allows one to see up to 70m far

f027535: aquatic weeds reflected in Pupu Springs

f027536: aquatic weeds reflected in Pupu Springs

f027537: freediver holds on in the current of Pupu Springs

f027603: a freediver duck-dives down, breaking the ripples in the surface

f027604: exploring Pupu Springs

f027605: aquatic weeds and mosses in Pupu Springs

f027607: a palette of colours and reflections, Pupu Springs

f027619: freshwater aquatic weeds and reflections

f027627: a diver hangs motionless, contemplating the Crystal Pool

f027628: in the Crystal Pool of the Riwaka Resurgence

f027629: diver sylhouetted in crystal clear fresh water

f027634: a fish-eye view of the forest

f027721: longfin eels sleeping together

f027803: towards the inner sanctum of the Riwaka Resurgence

f027810: large spotted stargazer burrowing in the sand

f027813: large spotted stargazer swimming

---

Poor Knights Islands

f028304: sand octopus poses outside its den

f028705: all Sandagers wrasses start life as females, until one becomes a large male like this one

f028804: when young, blue maomao shelter in the shallows where seaweeds can protect them

f028817: bluefish in dark costume scratched by baby koheru

f028818: a serene scene of 7 bluefish waiting to be cleaned by small fish

f028824: small fish sheltering in tall featherweed agains the threat from shag attack

f028916: camouflage crab has cut bits from its environment and glued these on its back

f028920: well covered decorator crab exposed on a dark yellow boring sponge

f028924: flaming Janolus ignis nudibranch on its favourite bryozoan food

f028925: baby killer prawn is very shy of light

f029004: clown nudibranch

f029025: sleeping butterfly perch

f029107: spectacular Tambja verconis nudibranch

f029115: suspicious Cooks scorpionfish

f029116: closeup of cooks scorpionfish

f029121: closeup of yellow zoanthid anemones

f029213: a large female longtail stingray turns away from an inquisitive freediver

f029214: longtail stingray taking off, accompanied by a freediver

f029215: longtail stingrays seek shelter in shallow sandy patches by day

f029221: diver and female longtail stingray

f029322: zoanthid anemones invading a purple gorgonean fan coral

f029324: 10 cm crested blenny in its den

f029325: 10cm crested blenny

f029425: magnificent Vercos tambja nudibranchs

f029605: purple jellyfish Pelagica noctiluca stings slightly

f029609: unidentified jellyfish

f029625: inquisitive clown toado inspects outstretched finger

f029718: juvenile pink maomao in pyjamas by night

f029907: purple gorgonean fans and other sessile filterfeeders on a vertical wall inside an archway

f030211: diver and large snapper

f030227: diver following a trail of broken urchins while snapper and others expect to be fed

f030230: kelpfish or hiwihiwi has no swim bladder

f030422: banded coral shrimps bond for life

f030427: blue eyed triplefin has spectacular colours

f030436: marblefish facing the camera

f030515: fearsome mosaic moray about to inspect hand

f030516: mosaic morays are very strong

f030522: well hidden scorpion fish

f030707: yellow moray eel sniffs at hand

f030708: orange wrasse female about to change into a male

f030710: branched and curved bryozoan firs

f030715: Tambja morosa nudibranch on its favourite food

f030718: greenish Tambja morosa feeding

f030723: find the scorpion fish!

f030728: porae hovering above the photographer, carefully watching the goings-on

f030731: closeup of a schooling triplefin

f030736: crested blenny closeup

f030810: male Sandagers wrasse yawning

---

Kermadec Islands

f030820: male scarlet wrasse

f030909: closeup of white-spined urchin, Kermadec Is

f030917: lionfish

f030924: lionfish have poisonous dorsal spines

f030932: brown and yellow featherstars feed from plankton

f030934: young yellow-banded perch

f030937: lionfish has many petticoats to catch prey with

f031016: northern kahawai

f031110: crown of thorns star has poisonous spines

f031203: Cooks scorpion fish

f031205: closeup of a young diadema sea urchin

f031207: Lord Howe coral fish sleeping

f031213: red hermit crab carrying two anemones on its shell

f031221: splendid hawkfish has hairy tufts on the tops of its dorsal spines

f031223: hermit crab, Kermadec Is

f031323: large purple gorgonean fan, Kermadec Is

f031419: corals & urchins on volcanic rock, Kermadecs

f031425: a garden of fleshy corals, Kermadecs

f031502: purple gorgonean fan over-run by yellow zoanthid anemones

f031505: pink gorgonean fans and yellow tube corals

f031506: yellow tube corals, purple gorgonean fan and yellow & brown feather stars

f031507: brown feather stars, Kermadecs

f031508: yellow gorgonean fan, Kermadecs

f031520: striped boarfish lives in deep tranquil waters

f031607: large spotted black grouper is more interested in cuddles than in food, kermadecs

f031608: friendly young female spotted black grouper is already 30 years old

f031613: Whitelip the large male was once female, and at 150cm length is perhaps 60 years old

f031704: two of Whitelip's concubines coming close for further acquaintance

f031709: large female grouper. Mirror mirror on the wall . .

f031715: female grouper turns her spots on whereas the other ones remain in black

f031724: large male grouper dwarfs snorkeldiver

f031803: Kermadec kingfish are large but slim, looking a bit emaciated. Food is hard to find.

f031819: splendid lion fish swimming freely

f031820: extravagantly dressed in beguiling colours, but poisonous yet timid

f032002: Lord Howe coralfish bond for life

---

Continued in part 2 of the index for 2003. .
'