Bizarre and Beautiful Coral Reef Animals
Coral reefs support an amazing array of life forms many of them beautiful, some of them downright bizarre. Dive in and take a look through this photo gallery.
Reef Fish, French Frigate Shoals
Reef Fish, French Frigate Shoals:
Colorful fishes throng a reef in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
James Watt
Feather Star
Feather Star:
A feather star waves its slender arms, filtering bits of food from the water.
Chuck Savall
Spotfin Lionfish
Spotfin Lionfish:
This lionfish, with fins and venomous spines extended, is an aggressive predator.
Chuck Savall
Queen Parrotfish
Queen Parrotfish:
This queen parrotfish scrapes algae from Caribbean reefs with its parrot-like beak.
Chuck Savall
Sea Anemone
Sea Anemone:
This Caribbean sea anemone brightens a variety of Caribbean reef habitats.
Chuck Savall
Nudibranch
Nudibranch :
The feathery strands at the back of this nudibranch’s body are its gills.
Jeff Dawson
Green Sea Turtle
Green Sea Turtle:
A diet of algae and seagrasses gives this turtle greenish colored fat—and its name.
Steve Turek
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Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 03/19/2010 - 1:27pm.
i think that the fish are cool because all of there colors.i like the goldfish. goldfish are my favorite fish. i was at vallyfair before and i got a goldfish. my grandma brought me and my sister to the fair and i got another goldfish.
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 9:26am.
So much information! I love it, very interesting and good for my 6 year old to learn from! Thank you for having so much information that I never knew existed.....
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AWESOME!