And what examples they are - the perfect macro Photog experience- why
don't land slugs look this good !.
On any dive- in California(Carmel) numerous and in Asia - immaculate !
Pacific diving- like non other !
Ken

Lee Bell wrote:
>
> Reef Fish wrote:
>
> > GM> I'd like to go in an other place and take new pictures for my web
> > GM> pages on Lions and clown Fishes and also Nudibranchs.
>
> > For those, the Caribbean is not in the same league as the Pacific.
> > There isn't ANY Clownfish (Anemonefish for the purist <G>) nor
> > Lionfish anywhere in the Caribbean . . .
>
> Unfortunately, too true.  In fact, I don't believe there are any clownfish
> or lionfish anywhere in the Atlantic.  I'll leave the distinction between
> clown and anemone fish to the experts.  The Atlantic is my pond.
>
> . . . though there are some locations
> > that have COMMON Caribbean Nudibrachs not in Giovanni's picture
> > collection.
>
> I've seen some, but in my experience, nudibranchs (nudibrachs?) are not
> common in the Caribbean either.  Here in the near-to-the-Caribbean, we see
> them occasionally, but nothing like the more spectacular examples I see in
> books on Pacific life.
>
> Lee

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