Mushroom Soft Coral in Reef, Sarcophyton sp., Triton Bay, West Papua, Indonesia

Mushroom Soft Coral in Reef, Sarcophyton sp., Tanimbar Islands, Moluccas, Indonesia

Mushroom Soft Coral in Reef, Sarcophyton sp., Triton Bay, West Papua, Indonesia

Mushroom Soft Coral in Reef, Sarcophyton sp., Triton Bay, West Papua, Indonesia

A beautiful coral reef thrives just off the island of Ambon, Indonesia.

Beautiful mushroom coral and reef fish thrive amid the tropical islands of Raja Ampat, Indonesia.

Soft Coral Sarcophyton sp. close up of polyps. Gili Islands, Lombok, Indonesia

Coral reef of soft leather corals (Sarcophyton sp.) and limestone islands. Misool, Raja Ampat, Papua, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean. More info: This region has the highest marine biological diversity in the world.

Soft leather coral, Sarcophyton sp., bleaching. This soft coral has lost its symbiotic algae, zooxanthellae, and turned white due to high water temperatures. Buyat Bay, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean.

Leather Coral Polyps (Sarcophyton sp) each extending its 8 arms to try catching plankton in water. Coral Polyps are individual animals having a common base (in this case, the leathery base). Derawan, Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Leather coral (Sarcophyton sp.), Apo Island marine reserve, Philippines, Visayan sea, Southeast Asia, Asia

Soft coral polyps ( Sarcophyton sp. ), Mahe, Seychelles, Indian 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

Split shot or over under of a shallow reef with a variety of table, leather, and staghorn corals, Acropora sp., Porites sp., Litophyton sp., sarcophyton sp., and the island of Bunaken, Bunaken Marine Park, Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean

Diver looking at leather coral (Sarcophyton elegans), Pacific Ocean, Flores, Indonesia, Asia

Young leather coral (Sarcophyton) on sandy bottom, Red Sea, Aqaba, Jordan, Asia

Close-up of Soft Coral underwater, Pemba Channel, Tanzania

Close-up of golden soft coral, Pemba Channel, Tanzania