Purple fire-goby (Nemateleotris decora) swimming over a coral reef with its mouth open. Photographed at Vaavu Atoll, in the Maldives, an island nation

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Purple fire-goby (Nemateleotris decora) swimming over a coral reef with its mouth open. Photographed at Vaavu Atoll, in the Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean.

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