Mona Passage Photo Gallery

The Mona Passage separates the west coast of Puerto Rico from Mona, Monita, and Desecheo Islands, and Hispaniola.

Topside views:

island dive masters island

Underwater scenery:

finger coral sea fan with flamingo tongues divemaster Paul with macro rig condylactus anemone and sea fan sea fan and flamingo tongues sponges barrel sponge

Fish portraits:

horse-eyed jacks Horse-eye jack, Caranx latus

creole wrasses Creole wrasse, Clepticus parrae

great barracuda Great barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda

nurse shark Nurse shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum

yellow stingray Yellow stingray, Urolophus jamaicensis

bicolor damsellfish pair Bicolor damselfish, Stegcastes partitus

longsnount butterfly fish Longsnout butterflyfish, Chaetodon oculeatus

four-eyed butterfly Foureye butterflyfish, Chaetodon capistratus

peacock flounder Peacock flounder, Bothus lunatus

black durgon Black durgon, Melichthys niger

coney bicolor coney Coney, Cephalopholis fulva (two color variations)

rock beauty Rock Beauty, Holacanthus tricolor

ocean surgeonfish Ocean surgeonfish, Acanthurus bahianus

barred hamlet Barred hamlet, Hypoplectrus puella

goby on star coral Cleaning goby, Elacatinus genie

yellow-headed jawfish and burrow Yellowhead jawfish, Opistognathus aurifrons

squirrelfish Squirrelfish, Holocentrus adscensionis

Critters:

social feather duster worms social feather duster worms Social feather duster, Bispira brunnea (two color variations)

split-crown feather duster worms Variegated feather duster, Bispira variegata

black-spotted nudibranch Black-spotted nudibranch, Phyllidiopsis papilligera

arrow crab Yellowline arrow crab, Stenorhynchus seticornis

flamingo tongues Flamingo tongue, Cyphoma gibbosum

flower coral and arrow crab

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