Animals

The bluespotted ribbontail ray spends the day hidden under a table coral, its tail sticking out.

The bluefish is the open-water hunter of the Azores, 60 centimeters long with sharp teeth, attacking small fish in schools.

The blue shark lives offshore.

The blacktip reef shark lives in lagoons and on reef flats; it averages 1.60 meters and has a black tip on every fin.

The bigeye trevally is a silvery jack with a very large eye that spends the day in tight schools whose tornadoes wrap around divers.

The bannerfish is a white fish with two black bands, yellow fins and a long dorsal filament, often mistaken for a Moorish idol.

The banded sea krait is a sea snake banded black on blue-gray, with yellow lips and a paddle-shaped tail, 90 centimeters to 1.40 meters long; its venom is formidable, but it is placid and...

The scalefin anthias is the small orange fish that drapes the Red Sea walls in clouds, between 5 and 35 meters.