"Juvenile Hawksbill Turtle" New Zealand including stoplight and rainbow parrotfish

including stoplight and rainbow parrotfish

extreme details

Like many people

known as a smack

and are the final check for color and quality

"Juvenile Hawksbill Turtle" New Zealand including stoplight and rainbow parrotfishHawksbills feed on sponges and colonial anemones found within the crevices of coral reefs. Their beautiful, thick shell scutes were once, and in some places still are, the origin of tortoiseshell jewelery. Dawn Witheringtons work as a graphic design artist and scientific illustrator has allowed her unique access to sea animals through the scientists who intimately know their subjects. Dawns specialty is photorealistic art that captures the elusive