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
2437 - Masked hamlet - Hypoplectrus providencianus - 12cm
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Cocoview front yard/Roatan/Honduras - Caribbean Sea
Tentative ID. The dark borders of the tail and upper pectoral fin as well as the blue cast on the ventral fins are typical for the masked hamlet but it lacks a clear mask for which the species is named.
Photographer: Bart Hazes
