Feb 28, 2024
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.)
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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.)
The polyps of a soft coral (Dendronephthya australis) off the coast of Kurnell, NSW, Australia
by John Turnbull
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
Shell hidding in the soft coral
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.)
Dendronephthya coral
Dendronephthya