FAVORITE SHOTS FROM 2014

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Photo Updates 2014:
Every month Caribbean Reef Life posts favorite shots from the reef. Hover over the pictures for species identification, or click on any one to view a larger version or start a slideshow:

January, 2014

Banded Clinging Crab
Bottlenose Dolphins
Caribbean Torpedo
Christmas Tree Worms
Cordelia Banks, Roatan
Spotted Drum
Spotted Eagle Rays
Elkhorn Coral
Lionfish
Sun Anemone Shrimp
Longsnout Seahorse
Tarpon
Mr. Bud's Wreck
Amy and Turtle
Sponges on Wall, Roatan

February, 2014

Viper Morays
Club Hydromedusa
Cubera Snapper
Spotted Eagle Ray
Adult Hogfish
Tiger Grouper
Trumpetfish
Tube Dwelling Anemone
Basket Star
Flagfin Blenny
Canyon Reef Swim-through
Garden Eel and Feather Dusters
Manytooth Conger
Green Moray
Bear's Den Swim-through

March 2014

Pipehorses
African Pompano
Undescribed Black Simnia
Blackcheek Blenny
Bottlenose Dolphin
Rainbow Parrotfish
Graysby
Great Star Coral
Needlefish
Sculptured Slipper Lobster
Southern Stingray
Wire Coral Shrimp

April, 2014

3 Pipehorses
Reef Squid
Arrow Shrimp
Cave at Hole in the Wall
Chank laying egg case
Flagfin on Polyp
Schoolmasters
Shortfin Pipefish
Atlantic Spadefish
Spotted Drum
Sam at Mary's Place
Southern Stingray
Thimble Jelly
Tiger Hiding in soft corals
Squid and sunlight

May 2014

Unicorn Filefish
Black and White Crinoid
Bluebell Tunicates
Southern Sennets
Strawberry Tunicates
Spotted Eagle Ray
Southern Stingray
Pipehorses
Rough Triggerfish
Sand Diver
Smooth Trunkfish
Juvenile Spotfin Butterflyfish

June, 2014

Arrow Crab
Neon Gobies
Red Night Shrimp
Orangesided Goby
Caribbean Reef Octopus
Sand Tilefish
Turtle Silhouette
Spinyhead Blenny
Nassau Grouper
Lined Sole
Reef Scene
Glassy Sweepers

July, 2014:

Bridled Goby
Face in the Channel
Fairy Basslet
False Killer Whale
Female Blenny
Goatee Blenny
Peppermint Shrimp
Juvenile Jackknifefish
Leopard Flatworm
Juvenile Lionfish
Ornate Elysia
Pipehorse
Spotted Scorpionfish
Slender Filefish
Slimy Doris
Sun Zoanthid
Juvenile Trumpetfish
Undescribed Flatworm
White Speckled Hermit

August, 2014:

Bearded Fireworm
White Speckled Nudibranch
Turtle Silhouette
White Spotted Nudibranch
Comb Jelly
Magnificent Feather Duster
Green Sea Turtle with Sharksuckers
Queen Parrotfish Face
Petalifera Ramosa
Two Nudis on Corky Sea Finger
Peacock Flounder Eye
Reef Octopus
Orange Ball Corallimorph
Juvenile Spotted Trunkfish
Giant Barrel Sponge/Texas

September, 2014:

Whale Shark
Candy Basslet
Green Moray
Hitch-Hiking Jellyfish
Caribbean Whiptail Ray
Flagfin Blenny
Silky Shark
Juvenile french Angelfish
Gaudy Clown Crab
Barracuda at Cleaning Station
Whale Shark
Lettuce Sea Slug
Lionfish
Red Stripe Hermit
Sea Spider
Slender Filefish
Trumpet in Sea Rods
Whale Shark
Whitenosed Pipefish

October, 2014:

Roughhead Blenny
Bushy Sea Whips
Juvenile Queen Angelfish
Graysby in Vase Sponge
Purple Crowned Sea Goddesses
Flagfin Blenny
Florida Corallimorph under UV light
Gaudy Clown Crab
Golden Zoanthids
Black Spotted Nudibranch
Peacock Flounder
Pipefish Face
Red Hermit in Sponge
Spotted Cleaner Shrimp
Unidentified Pipefish
Maze Coral under UV light

November, 2014: A break from Caribbean diving: Photos from November's holiday up to the Pacific Northwest. Shots taken in Hood Canal and Puget sound with the incomparable Steve Zedekar:

Golden Dirona and Clown Nudibranch
Giant Pacific Octopus
Longhorn Decorator Crab
Red Flabellina
Wolf Eel
Sailfin Sculpin
Blackeye Goby & Sunflower Star
Juvenile Giant Pacific Octopus
Grunt Sculpin
Leopard Dorid
Alabaster/white lined Dirona
Plumose Anemone
Red Irish Lord
Male Scalyhead Sculpin
Giant red dendronitid
Crescent Gunnel
Diamondback Nudibranch
Sparkling Shrimp
Monterey Dorid
Wolf Eel

December, 2014:

Bridled Burrfish
Green Sea Turtles
Lionfish at Night
Neon Goby at Night
Pipehorse
Red Spotted Siphonophore
Row-Pore Rope Sponges
Plumed Scorpionfish
Mutton Snapper Eating The thing
Solitary Gorgonian Hydroid
The Thing!
Yellow Pencil Coral

new species finds and photo updates since the First edition:

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All Material, copyright Mickey Charteris, 2022
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