Colourful reef fish (Orange and purple anthias sp.) plus with hard and soft corals on reef wall, Queensland, Australia, Pacific

Colourful reef fish (Orange and purple anthias sp.) plus Leopard Coral grouper (Plectropomus leopardus) with hard and soft corals on reef, Queensland, Australia, Pacific

Hard coral (Favites sp.), Jaboan, Rongelap, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Pacific

Hard Coral Galaxea sp.. Gili Islands, Lombok, Indonesia

Hard branching coral Acropora sp

Hard coral (Montastrea sp.), Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, Caroline Islands, Micronesia, Pacific Ocean, Pacific

Hard branching coral Acropora sp

Hard coral (Acropora sp). Borneo, Malaysia (RR)

Hard coral (Goniastrea sp.) detail, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, Caroline Islands, Micronesia, Pacific Ocean, Pacific

Hard Coral Echinopora sp ?

Hard Coral Galaxea sp.. Gili Islands, Lombok, Indonesia

Hard Coral Goniopora Sp

Acropora sp. hard coral and Blue-green chromis ( Chromis viridis ), Seychelles, Indian Ocean

Pink hydrocoral (lace coral), Stylaster sp., Namu atoll, Marshall Islands (N. Pacific).

Beaked Whale stranded on coral reef during low tide, Mesoplodon sp., Mili, Marshall Islands (N. Pacific)..

A magnificent anemone, Heteractis magnifica, in a shallow hard coral garden featuring several species of hard coral including finger and plate corals such as Porites sp., and Acropora sp., Komodo National Park, Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean Komodo National Park, Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean

Coral Grouper, Cephalopholis miniata, and lionfish, Pterois volitans, hunting anthias, Pseudanthias sp., Komodo National Park, Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean

Anthias, Pseudanthias sp., swim over a hard coral garden with a variety of different hard corals including table, branching, cabbage or lettuce, staghorn, and leather varieties, Acropora sp., Porites sp., Echinopora sp., Sarcophyton sp., Spice Islands, Maluku Region, Halmahera, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean

A magnificent anemone, Heteractis magnifica, in a shallow hard coral garden featuring several species of hard coral including finger and plate corals such as Porites sp., and Acropora sp., Komodo National Park, Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean Komodo National Park, Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean

Split photo of branching staghorn corals, Acropora sp., and islands in the background, Loloda Selatan, Spice Islands, Maluku Region, Halmahera, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean

A diver swims in the underwater national park of Bunaken, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

This species of coral hermit crab (Paguritta sp) is well known, but still awaiting a name from biologists. It lives in a hole in hard coral and traps passing plankton in it's feathery antennae, Yap, Micronesia