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Caribbean Underwater Photography Gallery I

 

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A deep-water Iridescent Glassy Sponge provides refuge to a small resident Goby - North Wall. Grand Cayman Island

Pale purple Spicule Sponge covered with Brittlestars. At the base is a a Red Rope Sponge and a Red Cup Sponge - Jackson Bay, Little Cayman Island

Unidentified shrimp in (Verongia ?). The shrimp appears similar to the rare Ruby Shrimp Ordontozona rubra from the Gulf of California. Jackson Bay, Little Cayman Island

Purple Verongia with Brittlestar and Orange Rope Sponge. - Jackson Bay, Little Cayman Island Yellow-orange Tube Sponges, a Red Cup Sponge, Red Rope Sponges, and in the background a Deep Water Gorgonian - North Wall, Grand Cayman Island Orange Urn Sponge. To the left is a grouping of purple and yellow Verongias. - North Wall, Grand Cayman Island

Giant Red Urn Sponge on an exposed rocky shelf, with Deep Water Gorgonians - North Wall, Grand Cayman Island

 Barber Pole Shrimp using an Iridescent Glassy Sponge as a cleaning station. - Jackson Bay, Little Cayman Island

 A Pink Vase Sponge and a brown Chicken Liver Sponge provide refuge for an Arrow Crab and Brittle Stars. - Jackson Bay, Little Cayman Island

Orange Cup Sponge with Black Brittlestar. Note the transparent rim on the sponge mouth. - Jackson Bay, Little Cayman Island

The color ofthe Red Cup Sponge stands out in an area well supplied with interesting marine invertebrates - Jackson Bay, Little Cayman Island

 Intense yellow Verongia  with Purple Rope Sponge, orange Didiscus Sponge, and Branched Fire Coral. Bloody Bay Wall, Little Cayman Island
The Caribbean Pink Vase sponge (Dasychalina cyathina) here little resembles a vase. In Jackson Bay, the predominate flow of the current sometimes gives rise to this "open" form. Cockscomb Oyster covered with Red Encrusting Sponge, at the base of a tubular Demosponge, probably a species of Verongia - Bloody Bay Wall, Little Cayman Island A delicately colored, rose-pink Dumpling Sponge (Xestospongia muta,) deep off the Bloody Bay Wall, Little Cayman Island. A large deep-water Xestosponge on an exposed wall - Bloody BayWall , Little Cayman Island.

Decorator Crab of the family Majidae finds refuge in an Iridescent Glassy Sponge - Jackson Bay, Little Cayman Island

 

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