Turtle-headed sea snake with tooth-like scale

An adult Turtle-headed sea snake with a pronounced tooth-like scale. This tooth-like scale is used to scrape fish eggs off the rocks. April-March is the season when Damsel fish have eggs ready to hatch. Last night the shallow water was loaded with new hatch-lings.

Location: Okinawa-Japan
Found: Maeda point
Depth: 35feet at night

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Equipment: Nikon D500 40.0 mm f/2.8
Nauticam underwater housing
1 Sea & Sea YS-D2J Underwater Strobe
- -custom diffusor - 1 ys-15 strobe
Light&Motion Sola 3800modeling light
- - - Sola 1200

Taken on: April 29, 2019

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Camera: Nikon D500, f/11.0, 1/250 sec, 40mm (=60mm), ISO 250 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D500
Lens:	40.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture:	f/11.0
Exposure Time:	0.004 sec (1/250)
Focal Length:	40mm (35mm equivalent: 60mm)
ISO:	250
Exposure Bias:	-2/3 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
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