Our Underwater Fauna

Discover the underwater life around Curaçao in pictures: a visual impression of what you can encounter here.

Found in the waters of Curaçao:

Eagle ray, African pompano, amberjack, American lobster, anemones (tube anemone, button anemone, corkscrew anemone, giant anemone, purple finger anemone), barracuda, bar jack, bear claw lobster, blue chromis, blue tang, blue damselfish, blue parrotfish, blue tang, brown chromis, brown wrasse, surgeonfish (including yellow tang, spotted tang, red tang, black tang), crown-of-thorns sea urchin, thornback ray, one-eyed cardinalfish, flamingo tongue, French angelfish, French grunt, yellowtail damselfish, yellowtail snapper, yellow wrasse, yellow tang, glass goby, goldentail moray, green moray, green sea turtle, gray angelfish, shark species (including reef shark and nurse shark), lizardfish, anglerfish, hermit crab, elkhorn coral, brain coral, horseshoe crab, horse mackerel, Indian lionfish, ivory tree coral, jackfish, gannet fish, jewelfish, bald goby, hawksbill turtle, chain moray, small boxfish, boxfish, lionfish, coral goby, coral damselfish, butterflyfish, queen conch, kingfish, lobster, wrasses, lanternfish, leopard flounder, mahogany snapper, moonfish, masked angelfish, meerkat goby, mud goby, moray eels (including reticulated moray, reef moray, goldentail moray, green moray, chain moray), nudibranchs, needlefish, new moon goby, octopus, orange elephant ear sponge, parrotfish (including blue parrotfish, queen parrotfish, princess parrotfish, rainbow parrotfish, redband parrotfish, redfin parrotfish, stoplight parrotfish, and midnight parrotfish), peacock flounder, squid, pistol shrimp, cleaner shrimp, pompano, porcupinefish, porcelain crab, puffers (pufferfish and porcupinefish), giant drum, reef bass, reef squid, reef lobster, reef mackerel, red snapper, stony coral, redlip goby, saberfish, scorpionfish, schoolmaster snapper, sergeant major, brittle star, blenny, Spanish flag bass, thornback ray, tarpon, tiger tail sea cucumber, drum, trumpetfish, garden eel, finger coral, filefish, flying gurnard, fireworm, white-spotted boxfish, white-spotted filefish, sawfish, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, pipefish, seahorses, sea turtles (green turtle, hawksbill turtle, and loggerhead turtle), black snapper, black-striped coral damselfish, sailfin blenny — and much, much more.

Go out and discover for yourself — every dive and every snorkeling trip reveals something new.