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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 [...]