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"Under The Sea"

If you could make a wish,
Would you want to be a fish.
If so, what kind would you be,
Large or small or cute as can be.
Can you hear the waves a crashing,
And see the fish go darting and dashing.
As we live, under the sea,
What a wonderful place to be.

You can enjoy the sights of our world,
For it is, crystal blue and pretty as a pearl.
Swimming to and fro, that’s my wish,
It’s the perfect life, for a fish.
And if you ever get the chance,
You may come on down and dance.
In our world, under the sea,
What a beautiful place to be.

MARK MOHLMANN
ALOHA

Photography By: Mark Mohlmann
Mark is a graduate student in the PhD program at the University of Hawaii,
Department of Zoology, studying systematic ichthyology (fish).

MARK: I live on a small island in Kaneohe Bay
where the University of Hawaii marine lab is located.
The island is about 24 acres and surrounded
by coral reefs and is a conservation zone.

MARK: I am looking at the taxonomy, phylogeny, and biogeography of a
group of gobies united by a behavioral synapomorphy.

(TRANSLATION: I am deciding which species are valid and describe and name new ones,
look at the evolutionary relationships and where they live.
The fish are grouped together cuz they all live with a type of shrimp
that digs the burrow and the fish is the guard)

Chaetodon aureofasciatus = Gold-banded Butterflyfish	Premnas biaculeatus = Spine-cheek Anemonefish
Amphiprion clarkii = Clark's Clownfish	Amblygobius decussatus = Orange-striped Goby
Paracirrhites arcatus = Arceye Hawkfish	Chaetodon miliaris = Milletseed Butterflyfish
Omobranchus rotundiceps = Roundhead Blenny	Cirrhitichthys falco = Falco's Hawkfish
Chaetodon multicinctus = Multibanded Butterflyfish	UNDER WATER SCENE

You are diver to visit Under The Sea
July 10, 1998

Thanks Mark for allowing me the use of your beautiful photograph's...
They were the inspiration for this web-page and poem... D(ee)

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