Photographer: Paul Osmond
(see this users gallery) A large Reef Lizardfish (Synodus variegatus) on the ocean floor. This is one of the more common southern hemisphere Indo-Pacific lizardfish and are regularly found perched on coral heads or on darker ocean floors.
Image taken in the Black Rock dive site which is part of the Northern Deatched Reef system in far north Queensland in Australia.
Detached Reef's in the area are named as they are near - but not part of - the Great Barrier Reef system.
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· Date: Sat February 4, 2006 · Reference ID: /22005-11-28-17-47-49 · Views: 7685 ·
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Keywords: lizard fish synodontidae predator predators pacific sand tropical indo aussie qld gbr
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Green Moray Eel being cleaned - Gymnothorax funebris Paul Osmond
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