2016 - Caribbean Reef Life:

Caribbean Reef Life:

Photo Updates 2016:
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, 2016

Banded Coral Shrimp

Elkhorn Coral (Belize)

Black Coral Barnacles

Honeycomb Cowfish with Sharksucker

Deepwater Seafan

Peppermint Shrimp

Veliger (Snail Larva)

Seawasp Digesting Prey

Gold-Lined Blue Sea Goddess

February, 2016

Caribbean Reef Shark

Banded Snapping Shrimp

Bearded Toadfish

Greater Soapfish

Christmas Tree Worms

Leather-Back Doris Mating

Lettuce Sea Slug

Longsnout Seahorse

Secretary Blenny

Sergeant Major Guarding Eggs

Red-Spotted Comb Jelly

Smith Bank, Roatan

Transparent Tube-Dwelling Anemone

March, 2016

Bottlenose Dolphins

Horse Eye Jacks

Hawksbill Turtle

Shrimp in Pyrosome

Red Spotted Siphoneophore

Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy

Spotfin Butterflyfish

Tiger Groupers Fighting

Juvenile Tiger Grouper

Cayos Cochinos Seamounts

Juvenile Sunshinefish

Yellowcheek Basslet

Lionfish on Barrel Sponge

April, 2016

Giant Barrel Sponge with Elephant Ears

Tiger Groupers Spawning

Clubhook Squid (Blackwater)

Larval Flounder (Blackwater)

Red-Spotted Siphonophore (Blackwater)

Clubhook Squid (Blackwater)

Larval Lizardfish Hunting (Blackwater)

1cm, Larval Pipefish (Blackwater)

Beroe forskalii (Blackwater)

Narcomedusa (Blackwater)

Red-Tipped Sea Goddess

Black-Spotted Nudibranch

Black Grouper @ Cleaning Station

May, 2016

Spotted Eagle Ray

Longlure Frogfish

Batwing Coral Crab

Crested Pipefish

Yellowhead Jawfish

Flapping Dingbat (really!)

Social Feather Dusters

Gaudy Clown Crab

Floating Siphonophore with Prey

Green Sea Turtle

Two Claw Shrimp

June, 2016

Yellowline Arrow Crab

Banded Porcelain Crab

Giant Basket Star

Caribbean Spanish Dancer

Chocolate-Lined Topsnail

Golden Crinoid Shrimp

Banded Pipefish

Pinnacles, Guanaja

Whitefin Sharksucker

Shrimp on Feather Duster

Juvenile Spotted Drums

Spongy Decorator Crab

Caribbean Reef Squid

July 2016

Arrow Crab Eating Pea Crab

Yellow Stingray

Sand Diver eating Flounder

Spotted Eagle Ray

Jack-knife Fish

Gold-Crowned Sea Goddess

Colin's Cleaner Goby

Blackcheek Blenny

Spotted Trunkfish Post-Larval

Female Seafan Blenny

Squat Amenone Shrimp

Warty Jellyfish

August, 2016

Green Moray Portrait

Rawlinson's Flatworm

Hogfish Eye Portrait

Giant Tun & Buddy

Lionfish at Night

Lobed Star Coral Spwning

Orange-sided Goby

Purple Reeffish

Sharpnose Puffer in Tube Sponge

Juvenile Fireworm

Jack in Silversides

Whiteclaw Coral Shrimp

lettuce Sea Slug Portrait

September, 2016

Red Tipped Sea Goddess

Lobed Star Coral Spawning

Mountainous Star Coral Spawning

Stippled Spoon Nose Eel

Sargassum Triggerfish

Crisscross Tritonia

Bottlenose Dolphin

Green Sea Turtle

Lofty Triplefin

Peacock Flounder

Ring Eye Hermit

Seawasp with Prey

October, 2016

Southern Sennets

Corolla spectabilis

Black Spotted Nudibranch

Larval Cusk Eel

Atlantic Spadefish

Lettuce Sea Slug

Beroe forskalli

Sharpeye Flatworm

Giant Barrel Sponge

Yellowhead Jawfish

November, 2016

French Angelfish

Juvenile Gray Angelfish

Deepwater Seafans

Juvenile Clubhook Squid

Amphipod on Tunicate

Larval Squirrelfish

Brown Grass Shrimp

Siphonophore Zooids

Giant Barrel Sponges

Juvenile Yellow Jacks

Caribbean Reef Octopus

Star Horshoe Worm

December, 2016

Alantic Brief Squid

Postlarval Lizardfish

Juvenile Regal Slipper Lobster

Atlantic Tripletail

Spinyhead Blenny

Roughhead Blenny

Scaly-tailed Mantis Shrimp

Skeleton Shrimp

Pyrosome with Amphipods

new species finds and photo updates since the First edition: