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The 3rd largest barrier reef in the world as seen from the sky. There are no resorts, but you can sleep on a boat or tent and do an overnight trip with diving. It's about 33 km west of Mindoro island.
This is as close as we got to the Barrier Reef - the Townsville Reef HQ Aquarium.
I like the dappled light.
Fra åpning av The Reef Resort Frederikshavn, badeland og hotell, 1. juni 2010.
Les reportasjen fra The Reef Resort & Hotel Fredrikshavn her: www.aktivioslo.no/the-reef.php
Foto: Erik F. Brandsborg
Continuing our tourist trip to Cairns on our last full day in Australia we visited the Great Barrier Reef. This shot was taken from a glass bottomed boat taking a tour over the coral. Obviously this was taken through glass so the quality isn't that great but hopefully you still get an impression of the coral and the seabed.
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum : Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
Order: Perciformes (Perch-likes)
Family: Pomacanthidae (Angelfishes)
Genus/species: Pomacanthus paru
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: French Angelfish have tall, narrow bodies. and can turn quickly and maneuver down into narrow cracks between the corals to hunt prey and avoid predators.
The most observable difference between angelfishes and butterflyfishes is the preopercule spine on the gill cover common to angelfishes. Bodies are covered in black scales except those at front from nape to abdomen, which are rimmed with golden yellow. Adults have a broad orange-yellow bar at the base of their pectoral fins and have a dorsal filament that is yellow.
Juveniles are jet black with circular bright yellow bands.
Max length : 41 cm (16 inches), common length : 25.0 cm (10 inches).
DISTRIBUTION/HABITAT: Western Atlantic: Florida, USA and Bahamas to Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Eastern Atlantic: off Ascension Island to the west coasts of Africa in shallow reefs. Depth range 3 - 100 m (10-90 feet).
DIET IN THE WILD: Omnivore: feeding on sponges, algae, bryozoans, zoantharians, gorgonians and tunicates.
REPRODUCTION: P. paru are oviparous and monogamous. Spawning pairs are strongly territorial, with usually both members vigorously defending their areas against neighboring pairs.
CONSERVATION: IUCN; Least concern.
REMARKS: They swim by rowing with their pectoral fins.
Juveniles tend cleaning stations where they service a broad range of clients, including jacks, snappers, morays, grunts, surgeonfishes, and wrasses. At the station the cleaner displays a fluttering swimming and when cleaning it touches the clients with its pelvic fins.
Ciguatera poisoning may rarely occur from eating French angelfish.
References
California Academy of Sciences, Steinhart Aquarium, Caribbean Reef 2018
Ron's Wordpress Shortlink: wp.me/p1DZ4b-KJ
Ron's flickr www.flickr.com/photos/cas_docents/sets/72157625866509117/...
fishbase www.fishbase.org/summary/1118
ADW animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Pomacanthus_paru/
Taken on May 30, 2008, 2-19-13, 11-21-13, 1-20-14, 8-14-15, 1-4-16, 10-20-16, 11-11-18
Michaelmas Cay, Queensland, Australia.
On board the catamaran Ocean Spirit heading for the Great Barrier Reef at Michaelmas Cay.
Part of our excursion to the Great Barrier Reef was a dive in a submersible ... because of recent typhoons, the water was all churned up and sandy, and not as crystal clear as it usually is ... but it was still an amazing sight!