Friday, January 22, 2010

Butterflyfish





Bonaire is lucky enough to have 5 species of butterflyfish. The banded butterflyfish and the foureye butterflyfish are quite common and we see them on nearly every dive. We often see the spotfin butterflyfish. The two most uncommon, and rather illusive species are the reef butterflyfish (bottom photo), which we encountered at about 80 feet today, and the longsnout butterflyfish (top photo), which we encountered at about 60 feet. We were lucky enough to see 3 reef and 3 longsnout butterflyfish today.

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