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Males in this species are "mouth brooders", meaning they will carry their fertilized eggs in their mouth until they're ready to hatch. Pajama cardinalfish are small in size with large, red eyes, a ...

Male feather blennies have a bright blue spot near the front of their dorsal fin. Along coral reefs, heavily vegetated areas and soft bottom habitats, the feather blenny can be found in the western ...

Visit our 135,000 gallon shark habitat. Meet our resident sea turtles, otters, seahorses and gracefully drifting sea jellies. Explore coral reefs and other displays highlighting the real ecosystems ...

Every January, Mote hosts its Science Lecture Series featuring Mote scientists who share their world-class research on Monday evenings. We hope you enjoyed the 2025 Mote-ivational Monday lecture ...

Coral catsharks are nocturnal hunters, meaning they feed at night. These sharks like to inhabit coral reef communities in shallow coastal waters. Relatively secluded, coral catsharks can primarily be ...

Lemon gobies are sometimes referred to as poison gobies because of the toxic mucus they produce. In the Indo-Pacific, these fish live in coral reef colonies and can often be found amongst branches of ...

This species of hogfish travel in groups of one male and several females. Throughout the western Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, these hogfish inhabit rocky areas and coral reefs.

This coral species spawns from April to August every year. Using its tentacles, mustard hill coral will catch and eat smaller marine organisms that drift by. Coral also have a special algae—called ...

Gold-spotted rabbitfish are able to blend into coral habitats almost seamlessly with their unique coloring and dotted pattern. Gold-spotted rabbitfish have pale blue bodies covered in tiny orange dots ...

These fish visit different locations at different times of day. At night, they stay near sandy, muddy or gravel bottoms to feed, and during the day they shelter on reefs, in caves, under ledges and ...

Due to their slow growth and low reproduction rate, goliath groupers have experienced a population decline of at least 80% in the last ten years. These fish can grow to be over 8 feet (2.5 meters) ...