Chaetodon lunulatus in Mo'orea (IMAGE)

Rice University

Chaetodon lunulatus in Mo'orea

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Chaetodon lunulatus, a coral predator photographed in Mo'orea, French Polynesia, in October 2020. Rice University marine biologists discovered that the feces of coral-eating fish in Mo'orea contain high concentrations of live symbiotic algae that coral depend upon.

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Photo by Alex Veglia/Rice University

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