#soft corals

[trekking-through-life]

I love how peaceful octocorals are.

[snototter]

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

by John Turnbull

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[arrecifescoralinos]

Do you know the differences between hard corals and soft corals?

#SealifeSaturday

Learn about that with this infographic that the Reefbites team did! Their differences with symbionts, types of skeletons, number of planes of symmetry in their polyps and more! Enjoy these differences and learn more about Octocorallia and Hexacorallia.

¿Sabes la diferencia entre los Corales duros y los blandos? Aprende sobre esto con esta infografía que realizó el equipo de Reefbites! Aprende sobre sus diferencias en simbiontes, tipos de esqueletos, número de planos de simetría en sus pólipos y mucho más! Disfruta aprendiendo aquí esas diferencias entre Octocorallia y Hexacorallia.

#seacreatures #corals #hecacorallia #octocorallia #hardcorals #softcorals #coralreefs

[queen-of-my-blog]

[typhlonectes]

‘Beautiful coral’ discovered on the New South Wales Central Coast

A threatened species of coral, thought to be restricted to Port Stephens, calls the Central Coast home.

MAPPING OF THE Brisbane Water estuary on the New South Wales Central Coast has revealed the existence of soft corals previously thought to be restricted to Port Stephens.

Before the discovery, there had been anecdotal evidence that soft coral existed at Ettalong and Umina, but until now, no specimens had been found.

The species of soft coral, Dendronephthya australis, is pink-to-brown in colour, with no hard skeleton, meaning it can be seen swaying with the current.

“People have been totally surprised by the presence of a soft coral on the Central Coast,” says Troy Gaston from the University of Newcastle, who was involved in the mapping.“They don’t believe it at first...

[psikonauti]

Soft Corals in Fiji

[aquatictimes]

Natural sunlight in the reef