Sharptail Eel (Myrichthys breviceps) + Coney Hunting Bonaire_UW©JMC_703AWBC

Bonaire fishes acting out shadowing behavior while hunting together at night. This Sharp-tail Eel joined up with the seabass in about 40 SWF and I followed them into quite shallow water as they hunted together that night. A Coney has 2 black dots on lower lip, as does this one. Its color is paler than usual to match his partner or the sand and rubble coral, which are light in color, he adapted to match by camouflage.

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Janet MacCausland

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Sharptail-Eel (Myrichthys breviceps) Coney shadow hunting shadow feeding behavior underwater Bonaire NA Caribbean predator hunt spotted eel reef coral fish Coney (Cephalopholis fulva) Coney Butterfish grouper subfamily Epinephelinae family Serranidae marine ray-finned fish bass game Caribbean western Atlantic reef aquarium trade night fish Eel forage opportunist association hunting Sharp-tail Eel nuclear hunting shadowing together cooperative © Janet MacCausland

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Aruba, Bonaire & Curacao, NA, & Roatan, Fishes-Caribbean & Gulf_Osteichthyemy (under reconstruction, Pls search)