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Echinometra viridis, the Reef Urchin. 2-3 in. diameter. Pointed purple to brownish spines with a white ring around their base. Tropical West Atlantic. Feed during the night (hide in coral, rock by day) on algae. Cozumel 2011 image.

Elysia (Thuridilla) picta (Verrill 1901), Cozumel 2011.
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Equetus punctatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801), the Spotted Drum. To 27 cm. Tropical West Atlantic. Below: Four inch individual off Cozumel 2011.

Gymnothorax funebris Ranzani 1840, the Green Moray. Tropical Eastern and Western Atlantic and Eastern Pacific. To about eight feet in length (250 cm.) and 29 kg. A dangerous biting Moray that mainly eats crustaceans and fishes in the wild... most everything in captivity. Best left in the sea or the occasional public aquarium. Cozumel 2011.

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