Alex Mustard / Colourful reef scene with Leather corals (Sarcophyton sp.), Soft corals (Dendronephthya sp.) Seafans (Melithea sp.) and fish, including Magenta slender anthias (Luzonichthys waitei) and Scalefin anthi...

Wild Wonders of Europe / Banfi / Mediterranean fairy basslet (Anthias anthias) on artificial reef, Larvotto Marine Reserve, Monaco, Mediterranean Sea, July 2009

Chris Newbert / Squarespot Anthias (Pseudanthias pleurotaenia) female 50 feet deep, Papua New Guinea

Norbert Wu / Sergeant Major (Abudefduf vaigiensis) with Basslet (Pseudanthias sp) and Fairy Basslet (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) schools around coral reef, Australia

Fred Bavendam / Several species of Basslets (Pseudanthias sp) swarming above a Leaf Coral (Pavona clavus), Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea

Fred Bavendam / Sea Goldie (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) group feeding in the currents on a steep slope with Soft Corals, Crinoids and Gorgonians, Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea

Fred Bavendam / Basslet (Pseudanthias sp) school, swimming near a Sea Fan (Melithaea sp) and a Blue Sea Star (Linckia laevigata)

Fred Bavendam / Several species of Basslets (Pseudanthias sp) swarming above a Columnar Leaf Coral (Pavona clavus), Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea

Fred Bavendam / Basslet (Pseudanthias sp) school, swimming around a deep bommie with Soft Coral (Dendronephthya sp) sponge and a gorgonian sea fan, Andaman Sea, Thailand

Fred Bavendam / Sweeper (Parapriacanthus sp) and Basslet school (Pseudanthias sp) feeding in the currents above a coral plate covered with Crinoids, Papua New Guinea

Alex Mustard / Scalefin anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) male with a long exposure. Ras Katy, Sharm El Shiekh, Sinai, Egypt. Red Sea. Commended in the GDT Photography competition 2019.

Alex Mustard / Colourful coral reef scene with Scalefin anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis), soft corals (Dendronepthya sp.) and hard corals (Acropora sp.). Ras Mohammed National Park, Sinai, Egypt. Red Sea

Alex Mustard / Colourful coral reef wall, with orange Scalefin anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) swarming over red soft corals (Dendronephthya sp.) in a current. Ras Mohammed National Park, Sinai, Egypt. Red Sea

Georgette Douwma / Kaleidoscopic image of soft corals (Dendronephthya sp) and Lyretail anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis), Egypt, Red Sea.

Gary Bell/ Oceanwide / Red-cheeked Anthias (Pseudanthias huchtii) school in reef, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Georgette Douwma / Gorgonian sea fan (Melithaea sp.) with Lyretail anthias (Pseudanthias sqamipinnis). Similan Islands, Andaman Sea, Thailand

David Fleetham / Peach / Fairy anthias / basslet (Pseudanthias dispar) Tubbataha Reef National Park, Philippines.

Linda Pitkin / Stony coral (Porites sp.) with Anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) Ras Ghozlani, Ras Mohammed National Park, Egypt, Red Sea.

Linda Pitkin / Stony coral (Porites sp.) with Anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis), and diver Ras Ghozlani, Ras Mohammed National Park, Egypt, Red Sea.

Alex Mustard / Portrait of a Fairy basslet (Gramma loreto) on a coral reef. Jardines de la Reina, Gardens of the Queen National Park, Cuba. Caribbean Sea.

Franco Banfi / Reef covered with soft coral,( Dendronephthya sp) and Black coral, (Antipathes sp) with shoal of Jewel fairy basslet (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) South Point dive site, Sanganeb reef, Sudan, Red Sea

Franco Banfi / Soft coral (Dendronephthya sp) with shoal of Jewel fairy basslet, (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) South Point dive site, Sanganeb reef, Sudan, Red Sea

Franco Banfi / Reef and shoal of Jewel fairy basslet (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) South Point dive site, Sanganeb reef, Sudan, Red Sea

Franco Banfi / Gorgonian fan (Subergorgia mollis) with jewel basslet (Pseudanthias squamipinnis), Aldabra Atoll, Natural World Heritage Site, Seychelles, Indian Ocean.

Alex Mustard / Scalefin anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) shoal of orange female fish with a couple of purple males, swarming in front of a coral reef, feeding on plankton brought by currents. Ras Mohammed Marine...

Tony Wu / Red-tinted black coral tree (Antipathes sp.) surrounded by a school of Orange fairy basslets (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) Black and Silver dive site in the Nuakata Island area of Milne Bay, Papua New G...

Tony Wu / Jewel fairy basslet (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.

Tony Wu / Jewel fairy basslets (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) around sea fans, Carl's Ultimate dive site in the Eastern Fields of Papua New Guinea

Tony Wu / Orange basslets (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) huge shoal rising up from an enormous hard coral formation at the top of Lynda's Reef near Nuakata Island in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea

Tony Wu / Orange basslets (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) with sea fans on top of the arch at The Doghouse dive site in Diving Dog Passage on the Barrier Reef of Papua New Guinea

Tony Wu / Orange basslets (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) with sea fans on top of the arch at The Doghouse dive site in Diving Dog Passage on the Barrier Reef of Papua New Guinea

Tony Wu / Jewel fairy basslet (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) male profile, Papua New Guinea

Tony Wu / Jewel fairy basslet (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) male, Eastern Fields of Papua New Guinea

Tony Wu / Colorful male jewel fairy basslet (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) photographed in the Eastern Fields of Papua New Guinea

Tony Wu / Jewel fairy basslet (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) female portrait, Papua New Guinea

Georgette Douwma / Gorgonian sea fan (Melithaea sp.) with Lyretail anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) Similan Islands, Andaman Sea, Thailand.

Georgette Douwma / Gorgonian sea fan (Melithaea sp.) with Lyretail anthias (Pseudanthias sqamipinnis) Similan Islands, Andaman Sea, Thailand.

Franco Banfi / Royal gramma basslet (Gramma loreto) Isla de la Juventud, Cuba, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean

Aflo / Square-spot fairy basslet (Pseudanthias pleurotaenia) fingerling swimming, Haterumajima, Okinawa, Japan. July.

Franco Banfi / Mediterranean fairy basslet (Anthias anthias) Ischia Island, Italy, Tyrrhenian Sea, Mediterranean

Franco Banfi / Mediterranean fairy basslet (Anthias anthias) Ponza Island, Italy, Tyrrhenian Sea, Mediterranean

Norbert Wu / Redfin Anthias (Pseudanthias dispar) and Anthias (Anthias sp) school in coral reef, Bali, Indonesia

Alex Mustard / Fairy basslet (Gramma loretoa) swimming above the reef, East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies, Caribbean Sea.

Pete Oxford / Fairy basslet (Gramma loreto) Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles, Caribbean

Hiroya Minakuchi / Redfin Anthias (Pseudanthias dispar) school, Borneo, Malaysia

Hiroya Minakuchi / Redfin Anthias (Pseudanthias dispar) group swimming over coral reef, Celebes Sea

Jane Burton / Fairy basslet / Royal gramma {Gramma loreto / hemichrysos} captive, from the Caribbean

Birgitte Wilms / Red-cheeked Anthias (Pseudanthias huchtii) male at 50 foot depth, Solomon Islands

Fred Bavendam / Squarespot Anthias (Pseudanthias pleurotaenia) male, Lembeth Strait, Indonesia

Chris Newbert / Male Squarespot Anthias (Pseudanthias pleurotaenia) 50 feet deep, Papua New Guinea

Chris Newbert / Squarespot Anthias (Pseudanthias pleurotaenia) female 50 feet deep, Papua New Guinea

Chris Newbert / Squarespot Anthias (Pseudanthias pleurotaenia) male 50 feet deep, Papua New Guinea

Chris Newbert / Squarespot Anthias (Pseudanthias pleurotaenia) male, 50 feet deep, Solomon Islands

Fred Bavendam / Redfin Anthias (Pseudanthias dispar), Gili Islands, Indonesia

Peter Scoones / Fairy Basslet (Gramma loreto) on coral reef, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles, Caribbean photographed during making of BBC Planet Earth series 2005

Chris Newbert / Squarespot Anthias (Pseudanthias pleurotaenia) male, 50 feet deep, Solomon Islands

Birgitte Wilms / Red-cheeked Anthias (Pseudanthias huchtii) portrait of a male, 50 feet deep, Solomon Islands

Chris Newbert / Squarespot Anthias (Pseudanthias pleurotaenia) side view, underwater, Solomon Islands

Norbert Wu / Basslet (Pseudanthias sp) school crowds coral wall with colorful Soft Corals (Dendronephthya sp), Red Sea

Angelo Giampiccolo / Fairy basslet (Gramma loreto) on coral reef, Maria La Gorda, Cuba.

Roberto Rinaldi / Fairy basslet (Gramma loreto) swimming over stony coral / brain coral, Belize.

Flip Nicklin / Fairy Basslet in coral reef

Franco Banfi / Jewel basslet (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) shoal swimming amongst soft coral, Maldives, Indian Ocean.

Franco Banfi / Purple queen anthias (Pseudanthias tuka), Lyretail anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) and other reef fish swimming amongst Box fire coral (Acropora millepora) and Sea whips (Leptogorgia virgulata) on...

Franco Banfi / Coral grouper (Cephalopholis miniata), Lyretail anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) and other reef fish swimming through Black sun coral (Tubastraea micrantha) and soft coral on coral reef, Maahia Thi...

Franco Banfi / Mediterranean fairy basslet (Anthias anthias) yawning, portrait, Vis Island, Croatia, Adriatic Sea. September.

Alex Mustard / Schools of fish, including Bohar snappers (Lutjanus bohar), Yellow-spotted trevally (Carangoides orthogrammus) and Bigeye trevally (Caranx sexfasciatus) gathering adjacent to a colourful coral reef wi...

Alex Mustard / Reef scene with Orange elephant ear sponge (Agelas clathrodes), Brown tube sponges (Agelas conifera), Deepwater sea fans (Iciligorgia nodulifera), Creole wrasses (Clepticus parrae) and Fairy basslets...

David Fleetham / Scalefin anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) shoaling around Alcyonarian soft coral (Alcyonacea sp.), Fiji, Pacific Ocean.

David Fleetham / Alcyonarian (Alcyonacea sp.) corals with Lyretail anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) shoal swimming around them on coral reef, Fiji, Pacific Ocean.

Franco Banfi / Jewel basslet (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) shoal on coral reef, with Lemon damsel (Pomacentrus moluccensis) among them, Arco Point, Panglao Island, South Bohol, Philippines, Pacific Ocean.

Alex Mustard / Freckled hawkfish / Foster's hawkfish (Paracirrhites forsteri) with female Scalefin anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) prey in its mouth, South Male Atoll, Maldives, Indian Ocean

Alex Mustard / Three Scalefin anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) females, joining a larger male on a spawning rise, Sha'ab Abu Nuhas, Egypt, Red Sea.

Alex Mustard / Scalefin anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) male, swimming close to surface, Sharm El Sheikh, Sinai, Egypt, Red Sea.

Alex Mustard / School of Scalefin anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) females, swimming around Fire coral (Millepora dichotoma) feeding on plankton brought to the reef by currents, Ras Mohammed National Park, Sinai,...

Alex Mustard / Scalefin anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) male, swimming close to surface, Sharm El Sheikh, Sinai, Egypt, Red Sea.

Alex Mustard / Large school of Scalefin anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) swimming around soft corals (Dendronephthya sp.) and Table coral (Acropora sp.) on coral reef, Ras Mohammed National Park, Sinai, Egypt, Re...

Alex Mustard / Pair of Scalefin anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) spawning at dusk, Sha'ab Abu Nuhas, Egypt, Red Sea.

Alex Mustard / School of Scalefin anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) swimming around a red soft coral growing beneath an overhang, with diver in background, Ras Mohammed National Park, Sinai, Egypt, Red Sea.

Alex Mustard / School of orange Scalefin anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) on a coral reef with table corals (Acropora sp.) and red soft corals (Dendronephthya sp.), Ras Mohammed National Park, Sinai, Egypt. Red S...

Franco Banfi / Shoal of Mediterranean Fairy basslet (Anthias anthias) swimming between Red gorgonian (Paramuricea clavata) that have colonised the crossbars of a sunken electricity pylon that fell into the sea durin...

Franco Banfi / Shoal of Mediterranean Fairy basslet (Anthias anthias) swimming between Red gorgonian (Paramuricea clavata) that have colonised the crossbars of a sunken electricity pylon that fell into the sea durin...

Franco Banfi / Shoal of Mediterranean Fairy basslet (Anthias anthias) swimming between Red gorgonian (Paramuricea clavata) that have colonised the crossbars of a sunken electricity pylon that fell into the sea durin...

Alex Mustard / Sohal surgeonfish / Arabian surgeonfish (Acanthurus sohal) displaying in front of a group of Scalefin anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) on the wreck of the SS Kingston. Shag Rock, Egypt, Red Sea.

Alex Mustard / Yellowbar angelfish / Goldbar angelfish (Pomacanthus maculosus) on a coral reef with colourful soft corals (Dendronephthya sp.) and (Scleronephthya sp.), a Coral grouper (Cephalopholis miniata) and An...

Alex Mustard / Emperor angelfish (Pomacanthus imperator) swimming in front of Fire corals (Millepora dichotoma) and soft corals (Dendronephthya sp.) and (Scleronephthya sp) with Scalefin anthias (Pseudanthias squami...

David Fleetham / Scalefin anthias / Scalefin basslet (Pseudanthias squamipinnis), in front of a gorgonian sea fan (Gorgonia sp.), Fiji, Pacific Ocean.

Georgette Douwma / Lyretail anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) male and female, composite image on black background, Red Sea, Egypt.

Tony Wu / Male Peach fairy basslet (Pseudanthias dispar), Japan, Pacific Ocean.

Lewis Jefferies / Female Scalefin anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) and trigger fish feeding in vibrant coral reef scene, Maldives, Indian Ocean

Franco Banfi / Mediterranean fairy basslet (Anthias anthias) Vis Island, Croatia, Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean.

Franco Banfi / Mediterranean fairy basslet, (Anthias anthias). Vis Island, Croatia, Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean