#dendronephthya

[colorsoutofearth]

Coral photos by David Hall

Top left: Wire coral (Cirrhipathes spp.)

Top right: Red sea whips (Ellisella spp.)

Bottom left: Soft coral (Dendronephthya spp.) with a brittlestar

Bottom right: Staghorn coral (Acropora spp.)

[snototter]

The polyps of a soft coral (Dendronephthya australis) off the coast of Kurnell, NSW, Australia

by John Turnbull

[sitting-on-me-bum]

At night, a juvenile Amblyglyphidodon indicus finds a cozy spot in a vibrant Dendronephthya to rest. The soft coral’s hues camouflage the dull damsel fish’s night time colouration, or pyjamas, and only its eye gives away its hiding place

By Viktor Nunes Peinemann

British Ecological Society photography competition

[psikonauti]

Shell hidding in the soft coral

[colorsoutofearth]

Kaleidoscopic photos of undersea invertebrates by Georgette Douwma

Photo 1: Dark red-spined brittle star (Ophiothrix purpurea)

Photo 2: Indonesian brittle stars

Photo 3: Feather star

Photo 4: Soft coral (Dendronephthya spp.)

[boudhabar]

Dendronephthya coral

[boudhabar]

Dendronephthya