Photos: Blennies and Gobies

Blennies are some of the funniest-looking fish in the ocean. Both my sister and some of my best friends really like strange-looking animals, and blennies are usually the animals that I choose to show them as an example of what nature is capable of.

Commensal gobies are on just about everything in the ocean (but for some reason, I don't have any photos of them from this trip), and shrimpgobies, like clownfish, are another weakness of underwater photographers. I don't know how many times I've crept along a sandy bottom trying to sneak up on a shrimpgoby and its commensal shrimp, only to come up with images only suitable for fish ID. They're hard subjects!

Most species IDs and some image captions are courtesy of Judy Foester.