2426 - Indigo Hamlet - Hypoplectrus indigo - 14cm
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Cocoview wall/Roatan/Honduras - Caribbean Sea
This individual is gravid with eggs and has a bleached out banding pattern. It is one of a pair about to mate.
Photographer: Bart Hazes
2427 - Indigo Hamlet - Hypoplectrus indigo - 14cm
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Cocoview wall/Roatan/Honduras - Caribbean Sea
One individual with dark bars (male) nudges the gravid individual with bleached out bars (female) shortly before mating.
Photographer: Bart Hazes
2428 - Indigo Hamlet - Hypoplectrus indigo - 14cm
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Cocoview wall/Roatan/Honduras - Caribbean Sea
Mating in progress. It seems to be the male (dark bars) that wraps around the female (bleached bars). I saw the same pattern for a couple of barred hamlets.
Photographer: Bart Hazes
2429 - Indigo Hamlet - Hypoplectrus indigo - 14cm
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Cocoview wall/Roatan/Honduras - Caribbean Sea
Pair of indigo hamlets milling around above a brain coral boulder jutting out from the reef wall edge. This was around new moon when I saw several pairs mate.
Photographer: Bart Hazes
2430 - Indigo Hamlet - Hypoplectrus indigo - 14cm
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Cocoview wall/Roatan/Honduras - Caribbean Sea
Just seconds after spawning the two hamlets return to the brain coral and the bleached bars of the female have returned to normal
Photographer: Bart Hazes
