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Striped Eel Catfish

Whiskers at the ready, a group of striped-eel catfish in Indonesia’s Lembeh Strait peers into the camera. The only catfish species to live in coral reefs, the juveniles of striped-eel catfish (Plotosus lineatus) form dense schools shaped like a ball.

Photograph by David Doubilet