Diving in Cancun Underwater Wonder Guide
         
     
 

Reef Squid

The reef squid have torpedo-shaped bodies with the hood-like part above the head called the mantle containing the stomach, gills, ink sac, pen, reproductive organs, and digestive organs it has two large eyes and 8 short arms near the mouth with 2 longer tentacles. The squid has two suckers in hiding to use against their prey. Their fins extend nearly the entire length of the body and undulate rapidly as they swim. All 10 appendages of the squid are "fixed to its head", and are arranged in a circle around the mouth.


 

 
     
   
Tropical Fish
     
     
Blue Parrotfish   Fairy Basslet  
Glasseye Snapper
  Butter Hamlet   Creole Wrasse   Graysby  
Glasseye Snapper
 
Grey Angelfish   Harlequin Bass   Hogfish   Indigo Hamlet  
Midnight Parrotfish
  Nassau Grouper
 
Red Grouper  
Redband Parrotfish
  Reef Squid   Rock Beauty   Queen Angelfish   Squirrel Fish
Queen Angelfish
 
Stoplight Parrotfish
  Tiger Grouper