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Title: Spawning Damsels, Maldives
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A male ternate chromis (Chromis ternatensis) pecks the flank of a large female, as she lays eggs in their nest, in dead Acropora coral, via her egg tube. North Ari Atoll, Maldives. Indian Ocean.
- Alexander Mustard
- behaviour
- coral reef
- Indian Ocean
- Maldives
- reproduction
- South Ari Atoll
- spawning
- ternate chromis: Chromis ternatensis
- tropical
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