Favorite shots from 2016

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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

Whale Shark
Banded Coral Shrimp
Elkhorn Coral (Belize)
Nurse Shark
Black Coral Barnacles
Honeycomb Cowfish with Sharksucker
Deepwater Seafan
Peppermint Shrimp
Pyrosome
Veliger (Snail Larva)
Seawasp Digesting Prey
Larval Eel
Silky Shark
Sailfin Blenny
Sponge Crab
Gold-Lined Blue Sea Goddess

February, 2016

Caribbean Reef Shark
Banded Snapping Shrimp
Viper Moray
Bearded Toadfish
Greater Soapfish
Christmas Tree Worms
Havana Mantis
Marbled Blenny
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
Scroll Coral
Hawksbill Turtle
Shrimp in Pyrosome
Red Spotted Siphoneophore
Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Sea Elephant
Spotfin Butterflyfish
Tiger Groupers Fighting
Juvenile Tiger Grouper
Red Grouper
Cayos Cochinos Seamounts
Juvenile Sunshinefish
Yellowcheek Basslet
Lionfish on Barrel Sponge

April, 2016

Giant Barrel Sponge with Elephant Ears
Tiger Groupers Spawning
Green Moray
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
Arrow Shrimp
Shy Hamlet
Black Grouper @ Cleaning Station

May, 2016

Spotted Eagle Ray
Lionfish
Longlure Frogfish
Batwing Coral Crab
Crested Pipefish
Elysia flava
Yellowhead Jawfish
Flapping Dingbat (really!)
Social Feather Dusters
Gaudy Clown Crab
Hogfish
Leech Aglaja
Floating Siphonophore with Prey
Green Sea Turtle
Two Claw Shrimp
Spotted Moray

June, 2016

Painted Elysia
Yellowline Arrow Crab
Banded Porcelain Crab
Giant Basket Star
Caribbean Spanish Dancer
Chocolate-Lined Topsnail
Golden Crinoid Shrimp
Banded Pipefish
The Pea!
Pinnacles, Guanaja
Whitefin Sharksucker
Shrimp on Feather Duster
Juvenile Spotted Drums
Spongy Decorator Crab
Caribbean Reef Squid
Elusia Tuca

July 2016

Arrow Crab Eating Pea Crab
Yellow Stingray
Sand Diver eating Flounder
Spotted Eagle Ray
Jack-knife Fish
Silversides
Gold-Crowned Sea Goddess
Dark Mantis
Ornate Elysia
Colin's Cleaner Goby
Blackcheek Blenny
Spotted Trunkfish Post-Larval
Lined Elysia
Female Seafan Blenny
Squat Amenone Shrimp
Warty Jellyfish

August, 2016

Green Moray Portrait
Cave Basslet
Rawlinson's Flatworm
Hogfish Eye Portrait
Giant Tun & Buddy
Lionfish at Night
Lobed Star Coral Spwning
Olindias Jelly
Orange-sided Goby
Purple Reeffish
Sharpnose Puffer in Tube Sponge
Juvenile Fireworm
Jack in Silversides
Velvet Elysia
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
Golden Coney
Green Sea Turtle
Tiger Grouper
Lofty Triplefin
Chestnut Moray
Nippled Palisa
Peacock Flounder
Ring Eye Hermit
Seawasp with Prey

October, 2016

Clubhook Squid
Southern Sennets
Corolla spectabilis
Black Spotted Nudibranch
Larval Cusk Eel
Atlantic Spadefish
Sea Butterfly
Larval Lobster
Lettuce Sea Slug
Lined Sole
Linesnout Goby
Sailfin Blenny
Beroe forskalli
Sharpeye Flatworm
Giant Barrel Sponge
Yellowhead Jawfish

November, 2016

French Angelfish
Juvenile Gray Angelfish
Deepwater Seafans
Creole Wrasse
Juvenile Clubhook Squid
Amphipod on Tunicate
Larval Squirrelfish
Comb Jelly
Brown Grass Shrimp
Siphonophore Zooids
Seawasp
Giant Barrel Sponges
Juvenile Yellow Jacks
Caribbean Reef Octopus
Sand Diver
Star Horshoe Worm

December, 2016

Alantic Brief Squid
Postlarval Lizardfish
Juvenile Regal Slipper Lobster
Small Seahare
Atlantic Tripletail
Spinyhead Blenny
Roughhead Blenny
Scaly-tailed Mantis Shrimp
Texas Sponges
Sea Spider
Hogfish
Skeleton Shrimp
Sea Butterfly
Pyrosome with Amphipods
Sea Elephant

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