Alex Mustard / Large whip goby (Bryaninops amplus) with a parasitic copepod (with two trailing egg ribbons) perched on Red whip coral. Whale Rock. Fiabacet Islands, Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Ceram S...

Alex Mustard / Blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus) circling over a shallow coral garden (Acropora spp.). Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Misool Marine Protected Area. Ceram Sea. Tropical West...

Alex Mustard / Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) feeding on soft coral (Litophyton sp.) on a coral reef. Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Misool Marine Protected Area. Ceram Sea. Tropical West Paci...

Alex Mustard / School of Bludger trevally (Carangoides gymnosthethus) throng over a coral reef, with a giant barrel sponge (Xestospongia muta). Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Misool Marine Protected Area...

Alex Mustard / Hard coral reef (Porites sp.) exposed by a low spring tide in front of an island. Yillet Island, Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Ceram Sea. Tropical West Pacific Ocean.

Alex Mustard / Split level image of a hard coral garden (Acropora spp.) in front of a tropical island. Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Misool Marine Protected Area. Ceram Sea. Tropical West Pacific Ocean.

Alex Mustard / A portrait of a clown triggerfish (Balistoides conspicillum) on a coral reef. Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Misool Marine Protected Area. Ceram Sea. Tropical West Pacific Ocean.

Alex Mustard / Convict blennies (Pholidichthys leucotaenia) swim across a coral reef with seafan (Melithaea sp.) behind. Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Misool Marine Protected Area. Ceram Sea. Tropical W...

Alex Mustard / Large green branching coral (Tubastrea sp.) with damselfish on a coral reef. Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Misool Marine Protected Area. Ceram Sea. Tropical West Pacific Ocean.

Alex Mustard / Blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus) swims beneath a jetty and schools of silversides (Atherinidae) on a coral reef. Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Ceram Sea. Tropical West Paci...

Alex Mustard / Few fish from a school of Bigeye trevally (+Caranx sexfasciatus) break off to scratch themselves against the flank of a blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus). This is a common and world wide...

Alex Mustard / Coral grouper (Cephalopholis miniata) waits in ambush, hiding against a seafan (Annella sp.) hunting silversides (Atherinidae), with schooling bigeye snapper (Lutjanus lutjanus) behind. Misool, Raja A...