Palau Images
Photographs from Norbert Wu Productions
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Plate 49
PAL0049. famous Rock Islands of Palau; limestone islands have been cut into strange mushroom-shaped formations; aerial view
Plate 50
PAL0050. (PAL50) ENVIRONMENT: crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci), feeds on the polyps of coral; leaves behind bleached skeleton; Palau
Plate 51
PAL0051. (SHS19) CAMOUFLAGE: robust ghost pipefish Solenostomus sp.; looks like a piece of eelgrass or seaweed; Palau
Plate 52
PAL0052. BEHAVIOR: mated pair of pink anemonefish; Amphiprion perideraion; guard eggs at base of anemone; Palau
Plate 53
PAL0053. mandarinfish (Synchiropus splendidus), displaying mating colors, colorful dragonets only come out at dusk, Palau
Plate 54
PAL0054. juvenile batfish (Platax sp.), changes shape when adult, Palau
Plate 55
PAL0055. giant yellowmargin triggerfish; Pseudobalistes flavimarginatus; guarding nest, will attack divers; Palau
Plate 56
PAL0056. green turtle; endangered; Chelonia mydas; Palau
Plate 57
PAL0057. snappers mating, shoot off clouds of spawn off coral reef edge, Palau
Plate 58
PAL0058. chub mating, shoot off clouds of spawn off coral reef edge, Palau
Plate 59
PAL0059. diver in school of chub mating (Peter Brueggeman, MR avail), shoot off clouds of spawn off coral reef edge, Palau
Plate 60
PAL0060. diver (Peter Brueggeman, MR avail) in school of pyramid butterflyfish (Hemitaurichthys polylepis), Palau