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Manta Ray

Manta birostris

Photo by Allen Hoof
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

Manta ray cruising above reef.

Habitat:

Near shore tropical waters; coral reef ecosystem.

Notes:

Spotted about 40 feet deep off of Molokini in a sheltered reef area inside a breached tuff cone. Original media photoprints, which were subsequently scanned and images saved as digital files.

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Comments (2)
Allen Hoof
Thank you. They might have been better, but by the time I got around to scanning them, about 25 years had passed. In the interim, the photos had deteriorated: color shift, fading, etc. Photoshop helped me restore the images somewhat.

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Mission
Global Coral Reef Monitoring
Mission
Underwater Hawai'i
Photographed
PublishedDecember 3, 2011

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