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a sea fan grows over dead coral
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Waving Sea Fans

Sea fans—softer-bodied coral relatives—colonizing a dead stony coral framework. ...
Coral showing signs of disease
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Disease Takes Hold

The white splotches are lesions of infected coral. ...
coral polyps
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Healthy Coral Polyps

Healthy coral is colorful. The entire coral is actually a colony of many little...
A soft, yellow coral
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Soft Coral

Most “typical” warm water corals found in shallow waters that most people...
The small larvae of elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) settle and grow on the crustose coralline algae species Hydrolithon boergesenii.
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Coral Larvae Settling

The small larvae of elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) settle and grow on the...
Tiny sponge spicules.
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Sparkling Sponge Spicules

These sparkling sponge spicules are microscopic needle-like structures that many...
Corallimorpharian
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Soft Coral Close-Up

These neon balloons weren't blown up for a party: they are the colorful tentacles...
In the X-ray image of this Viper Moray Eel (Enchelynassa canina), note the second set of jaws in the “throat”; these are the gill arches, which are present in all fish.
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X-Ray Image of a Viper Moray Eel

In the X-ray image of this Viper Moray Eel (Enchelynassa canina), note the second...
A pearly razorfish
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Pearly Razorfish

The pearly razorfish’s name may be slightly misleading since it is neither as...
In some reefs, small fishes such as this broad-barred goby protect corals by eating invading seaweeds.
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Coral Goby Cleans Coral

One of the first signs of a sick coral reef is seaweed creeping across...
Branching coral in naturally acidic water.
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Fragile Branching Corals in Acidic Water

Branching corals, because of their more fragile structure, struggle to survive in...
But closer to the CO2 seeps, the complex reef has been replaced by a “monoculture” of boulder corals.
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Monoculture of Boulder Corals

Close to the volcanic CO2 seeps, the vast diversity of corals that exists in...

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