Seafriends images part 2 for 2003

Thumbnails of the Seafriends 2004 CD - Part 2
by Dr J Floor Anthoni (2005)
www.seafriends.org.nz/scrntx03/index2.htm

This document contains thumbnails of part 2 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. 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 1.

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Goat Island

f032018: common prawn is versatile and almost invisible

f032021: closeup of common prawn

f032028: blue banded hermit crab

f032032: mature killer prawn

f032108: underside of common green urchin

f032110: top side of common green urchin

f032116: young banded triplefin looks like a bar of chocolate

f032126: double helix fan worm is extremely shy, disappearing into its tube

f032132: very tight closeup of mushroom-like compound seasquirts, many in each mushroom

f032133: variable triplefin in its most common suit

f032212: variable triplefin

f032309: decorator crab

f032311: decorator crab in a rock pool

f032412: triangle crab in a rock pool

f032413: male triangle crab has long nippers

f032415: male triangle crab

f032419: young male triangle crab pretends to be dead

f032425: common prawn in a rock pool, almost invisible to the eye

f032427: young pebble crab looks liike a speckled pebble

f032502: blackfinger crab is large and strong but docile

f032504: blackfinger crabs are found under stones. This one was placed in the open.

f032507: blackfinger crab

f032526: Tritonia inceerta nudibranchin search of food

f032527: white zoanthid anemones invading a black sponge

f032530: sea firs, soft corals and tubular hydroids

f032531: tubularia hydroids moving their dainty crowns

f032535: tubularia hydroids in the current

f032537: dwarf scorpionfish in one of its many colour variations

Poor Knights Islands

f032601: white flask sponges stand amongst a tapestry of other sponges

f032603: clown nudibranchs laying eggs

f032616: juvenile half-banded perch

f032621: crayfish are still rare on the Poor Knights

f032622: the bug that has 'bitten' so many

f032626: two-finger sponge looping back on itself in two places

f032631: our largest hermit crab is fist-sized, nocturnal and very shy

f032708: red-skinned white-spined urchin has many tube feet and other defences

f032712: young male demoiselle guarding nest of eggs

f032722: clown nudibranchs mating top to tail

f032728: red transparent seaweed

f032735: old half-banded perch

f032737: leatherjacket (male or female?)

f032802: pink maomao in resting colours by day

f032803: cheeky crested blenny in its protective hole

f032809: mouth of giant heart urchin shows combed-back spines and commensal clams

f032820: puffed up firebrick star in a rich environment

f032823: detail of yellow zoanthid anemones

f032829: skin of firebrick star has round pin-head spines

f032906: scalyhead triplefin always sits head-down

f032911: scalyhead triplefin in one of its colour variations

f032913: fearsome mosaic moray eel

f032921: mosaic moray scared and showing off

f032923: young male demoiselle on nest with eggs

f032925: male demoiselle tending eggs

f032935: inquisitive pink maomao

f033010: mosaic moray has teeth in the roof of its mouth

f033011: yellow and mosaic morays brotherly sharing the same den

f033024: common white-tipped anemones are all clones of one colonise

f033030: female pigfish in pyjamas just before bedding down deep inside a crevice

f033107: Yaldwyns triplefin in one of its guises

f033108: Yaldwyns triplefin

f033116: young black angelfish in its second colour phase

f033123:red-fleshed white-spined urchin eating flexible weed

f033126: transparent red seaweed

f033132: large male banded wrasse must weigh 3kg

f033201: brown urchin is rare in NZ but common in Kermadecs

f033205: male black angelfish tending an unusually large nest of eggs

Matapouri estuary

f033220: common prawn, algae and eelgrass

f033223: pillbox crab is almost invisible

f033304: blue crab

f033310: the lump fish is a suckerfish which normally hides under stones

f033312: estuarine triplefin

f033317: splendid display of male estuarine triplefin

Hauraki Gulf

f033427: shallow kelps and reflections

f033428: shallow kelp and reflections

f033436: radiating cathedral light

f033505: female red rock crab

f033513: lush solanderia hydroid tree

f033515: male blue-eye triplefin in spawning colours

f033517: male goatfish in spawning colours

f033525: thin-fingered soft coral

f033527: male goatfish in acute spawning colours

f033529: sand octopus camouflaged like sand

f033532: very large cask shell burrows by day and hunts by night, especially for sea cucumbers

f033536: john dory

f033616: orange nipple sponge on pink turf

f033619: male shorttail stingray skirting the kelp canopy

f033625: tight aggregation of crayfish surrounded by triplefins intent on stealing their eggs

f033632: kelp now grows where it never grew before

f033633: eagle ray ready to take off

f033700: spectacled triplefin

f033702: spectacled triplefins

f033706: Cooks turban shell is a strong grazer

f033707: spectacled triplefin in spawning colours

f033711: blue cod is always alert

f033713: cheeky blue cod

f033717: blue cod

f033719: mine field of sea urchins (kina)

f033726: sabella sand fanworm is very shy

f033733: variable triplefin

f033734: Yaldwyns triplefin in spawning colours

f033737:mottled triplefin in the wavewash

f033816: dying kelp forest

f033820: dying kelp forest

f033824: very wide angle lens captures Snells Circle outside which light reflects back to the bottom

f033826: wandering anemone attached to stalked kelp, opens up by night

f033832: flexible seaweed grows in sheltered placest

Mayor Island

f033904: a variety of shallow seaweeds

f033908: featherweed, flapjack and red seaweeds

f033912: featherweed and diver

f033913: shallow seaweeds and orange encrusting algae

f033917: red seaweeds thriving in low light under the bubble umbrella of turbulent water

f033927:seaweed

f033929: diver in a garden

f033930: seaweed

f033932: lush seaweed gardens at Mayor Island

f033937: marblefish seaweed garden tightly grazed to a work of art

natural and chain-made rippels in evening light

f034002: natural and chain-made ripples in evening light

f034003: diver and anchor

f034005: ripples in the sand by evening light

f034008: seaweed 'bommy' on white sand

f034012: snorkeldiver over kelp forest

f034015: space and tranquility

f034016: cathedral light, ripples and baby blue maomao

f034018: trhough the archway

f034021: young blue maomao

f034024: patience

f034100: coralline algae

f034102: leatherback chiton and encrusting sponges

f034110: coralline algae

f034111: coralline algae

f034114: lush red seaweed

f034115: lush red seaweed

f034116: noble chiton and encrusting algae

f034121: featherweed strap

f034125: young variable triplefin

f034126: common triplefin in one of its many costumes

f034129: common triplefin

f034130: sea rimu

f034301: bottlenose dolphin

f034302: bottlenose dolphin

f034304: female bottlenose dolphin

f034305: bottlenose dolphin

f034306: bottlenose dolphin

f034307: female bottlenose dolphin

f034308: freediver and bottlenose dolphin

f034311: freediver and bottlenose dolphins

f034312: bottlenose dolphins

f034314: swimmers and kayaks

f034317: shark's eye view of swimmers and kayaks

f034321: discovering the shallows

f034323: kelp forest

f034324: flapjack bladder kelp

f034419: copper moki

f034502: 4 cm mantis shrimp, swimming

f034513: the cryptic triplefin is difficult to find

f034521: unidentified triplefin

f034522: young bigeye comes out at night

f034523: male leatherjacket, sleeping

f034524: male leatherjacket

f034527: scalyhead triplefin

f034528: scalyhead triplefin

f034530: female demoiselle

f034531: young crayfish fossicking by night

f034532: young crayfish knows where to walk to and back

f034535: young crayfish in red seaweeds by night

f034600: male cryptic triplefin

Poor Knights Islands

f034612: school of juvenile yellow-eye mullet

f034613: 1 yr old yellow-eye mullet (sprat)

f034620: two year old sprat

f034623: one year old sprat

f034626: three year old yellow-eye mullet (sprat)

f034629: cryptic triplefin

f034700: spawning male pigfish inviting female for spawning

f034701: male pigfish in spawning colours just before spawning at sunset

f034703: female pigfish consenting to spawn

f034704: male pigfish holding female as they swim towards the surface to spawn at sunset

f034706: male and female pigfish just before releasing eggs

f034709: closeup of Sandagers wrasse

f034710: black angelfish

f034711: porae

f034715: porae in pyjamas by night

f034718: detail of feather star shows minute tube feet for catching plankton

f034720: purple gorgonean fan has polyps with 8 tentacles

f034721: purple gorgonean fan

f034724: yellow zoanthid anemones on a coral fan skeleton

f034725: pink Aplysilla rosea sponge has herringbone skeleton

f034727: Aplysilla sponge has fine pores and a flexible skeleton

f034729: scorpion fish and feather star

f034806: splendid brown sea urchin

f034826: mature bigeyes outside their crevice

f034827: bigeyes

f034836: diver and bubble screen

f034900: long-tail stingray

f034912: moulting eagle ray

f034915: short-tail stingray

f034917: short-tail stingray

f034931: golden bladder wrack (Carpophyllum angustifolium)

Kapiti Island

f035005: adventure with seal pups

f035011: playing with seal pups at Kapiti Island

f035013: three little seal pups

f035014: playing with seal pups

f035021: eight little seal pups

f035027: seal pups silhouetted

f035035: flying upside down

f035103: male scarlet wrasse

f035105: male and female butterfly perch

f035107: blue cod

f035108: blue cod

f035109: female leatherjacket

f035112: as a white-tentacled anemone moves around,
it leaves part of its foot behind which become new,cloned daughters

f035116: a garden of anemones

f035122: unidentified anemone

f035123: unidentified large anemone

f035137: copper moki

f035210: detail of unidentified bryozoan shows myriad tiny polyps

f035215: solitary female crayfish

f035216: moult of large red rock crab

f035222: mother seal seeking eye contact

f035223: female seal investigating us

f035224: hello?

f035233: jewel star and variable Aphelodorissea slug

f035300: a field of magenta jewel anemones

f035303: magenta jewel anemones

f035304: magenta jewel anemones can extend their bodies by night

f035306: magenta jewel anemones

f035307: banded triplefin by night

f035310: jam-packed field of jewel anemone

Yaldwyns triplefin in magenta jewel anemones

f035316: baby Yaldwyns triplefin protected
by stinging magenta anemones

f035318: female spotty in pyjamas by night

f035319: male spotty in pyjamas shows female spot on its side

f035320: orange coloured dwarf scorpionfish

f035322: banded triplefins in pyjamas by night

f035327: blue moki in pyjamas looks like wearing a commando suit

f035329: tiny reef octopus is active at night

f035330: tiny reef octopus

f035332: baby leatherjacket, 5cm at night

f035401: Aphelodoris luctuosa seaslug

f035404: posie of orange zoanthid anemones

f035417: stinging sea nettle moving graciously

f035418: sea nettle jellyfish

f035419: sea nettle

f035432: sea nettle, Chrysaora

f035433: sea nettle jellyfish mirrored by the surface

f035436: sea nettle

f035502: three little seal pups play-fighting

f035517: seal pup play

f035521: this little seal pup suckled my finger,then explored my wet suit by nibbling it

f217330: young bull seal pup imitating its father

Goat Island

f035709: eagle ray

f035719: crayfish moult; the animal is still alive inside a new shell

f035723: big snapper 'Monkeyface'

f035728: tiny crayfish, 4 cm long

f035735: snapper 'Monkeyface' mug shot

f035736: teeth worn round suggests he feeds on clams

f035737: old snapper 'Monkeyface'

f035800: 4 cm baby goatfish is still silver-sided as it has just recruited from the plankton onto the sand

f035802: sleeping female spotty

f035808: young bastard red cod, 10 cm

f035809: one year old goatfish

f035811: estuarine triplefin

f035814: 3 year old goatfish, female

f035816: goatfish

f035817: mottled triplefin in pyjamas

f035820: sand flounder can change the colour of its skin

f035823: sand flounder

f035828: mature male goatfish by night

f035831: young female spotty sleeping in tall flexible weed

f035833: unidentified anemones by night

f035936: tall stalked kelp and silver drummer

f202930: bottlenose dolphins patrolling a beach in search of young Kahawai

Mimiwhangata / Cape Brett

f036012: deadmans finger soft corals

f036013: urchin-grazed rock with encrusting sponges and anemones

f036021: ambush star and coralline covered sponges

f036028: large Astrostole predatory star

f036036: a dense stand of Lessonia strap weed

f036102: an unusually coloured comb star

f036103: comb star

f036105: oak leaf seaweed

f036107: ambush star stands tip-toed inviting prey to visit its safe chamber, which it then closes swiftly

f036110: ambush star

f036111: detail of paua shell polished by pebbles

f036112: mushroom shaped colonial seasquirts

f036114: brachiopods or lamp shells inside a cave

f036116: ambush stars have gaudy colours

f036121: ambush star

f036123: Patiriella cushion stars are very varied

f036124: large short-tail stingray

f036127: large marblefish

f036130: large marblefish is a plant eater and has no float bladder

f036133: reef star has rouinded spines

f036135: reef star is normally found along the west coast

f036207: large predatory triton (Charonia) feasting on a common sea urchin

f036208: Charonia eating a sea urchin

f036217: radiate limpet on a smooth feeding ground

f036221: red rock crab

f036235: variable triplefin on Cooks turban shell

f036305: male scarlet wrasse

f036316: spooky yellow moray eel

f036319: yellow moray eel

f036322: unidentified sponge

f036404: orange leatherback chiton

f036405: dark leatherback chiton

f036407: unidentified camouflage crab

f036408: brown-green leatherback chiton

f036409: deep-water long-armed spider crab

f036410: long-armed spider crab

f036411: tiger shell feeding on encrusting sponges

f036414: triangle crab

f036415: unidentified hermit crab

f036416: scaly-head triplefin

f036419: red lined cleaning shrimp

f036505: female splendid perch

Arid Island

f036703: small school of jack mackerels

f036831: bushy bryozoa has grown large in the absence of grazers and competition

037015: blue banded hermit crab

Kai Iwi lakes, Northland

f037204: young koura freshwater crayfish

f037211: large female freshwater crayfish carries larvae under tail

f037212: koura

f037216: freshwater crayfish brandishing its claws

f037223: freshwater crayfish by night on a muddy bottom

f037227: freshwater crayfish by night on a muddy bottom

f037228: freshwater crayfish by night on a muddy bottom

f037231: freshwater bully in pyjamas

f037232: freshwater crayfish has a flat head

f037235: freshwater cray seeks refuge in weeds

f037236: proud stance of a freshwater crayfish

f037329: rushes in a freshwater lake

f037404: freshwater bully by day

f037425: vegetation in Kai Iwi lakes

f037428: freediver exploring the misty deep of a freshwater lake

f037432 aquatic plants and reeds in a freshwater lake

f037506: reeds reaching the surface

f037513: aquatic weeds rising 1m from the bottom

f037533: freediver among reeds

f037536: snorkeller and reeds

f037537: angel above reeds

f202306: reeds piercing the water's surface

Aquarium

f214312: a Spanish lobster crawls out of its old skin

f214314: just-moulted Spanish lobster and her abandoned moult

f210000: rear view of policeman crab

Whangateau Harbour

f215226: tunnelling mudcrab brandishing its claws while warming up in the evening sun

f215227: a large and old tunnelling mudcrab

f215237: tunnelling mudcrab repairing its burrow

f215328: the scavenging gang of mud whelks, hermit crabs and hairy-handed crabs

f215335: a mantis shrimp joins the many scavengers

f215336: cryptic sand shrimp, 3cm

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