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This film shows the colorful reefs of Fiji. Here, the multitudinous fish can be seen in two colors. What they are, however, are the males and females of the same species, the Scalefin Anthias, Pseudanthias squamipinnis. The males are the purple fish and the females are orange. Although it may be hard to believe, the [...]

Here, with a backdrop of colorful soft coral of Fiji, is the Reticulated Dascylus, one of my favorite organisms.  A type of damselfish, this species hides in branching coral, like this species of the genus ancora, and then floats up and down to get plankton.

I was scuba diving off the island of Taveuni, in the Western Pacific island nation of Figi, on top of a coral pinnacle subject to considerable current. I observed a large area of bubble tip anemones, with resident Figi Anemonefish. These fish, Amphiprion barberi, were recently classified as a distinct species, through use of DNA [...]