Manado trip was great, with tonnes of exotic critters.. including mimic octopus! *BIG FAT GRIN*. THEN when I showed my pix to colleague M, she commented that many of these critters can be seen in Singapore. !!! I knew we had an amazing variety of nudibranchs but, Singaporean dragonets and Singaporean bobtail squid? COOLIO! and I thought the only similarity between Lembeh and Singapore was the muck.
Gorgeous dragonet from Koksheng's blog.
Cyrene 2008
and other dragonets found in Changi, Cyrene and Semakau here.
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Boxcrab (from Lembeh). Was so excited to see it.
and we have it on mainland Singapore!
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Longspine scorpionfish (from Lembeh)
for the Singaporean longspine.. click here
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Seamoth!!! (from Lembeh)
seasonally abundant on Chek Jawa!
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Bobtail squid at Pulau Hantu!!!from Hantu blog 2004
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Pipefish from the Tide Chaser Blog
Semakau 2008
Was looking for the new species found by Blue Tempeh in 2006,
but sadly, the photo is no longer online.
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Other of my Manado sightings found locally include Solefish, Frogfish, Crocodile fish /flathead. Of course, there's also the commonly sighted pufferfish, filefish, butterflyfish, octopii, and the list goes on...
