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Corals & Anemonies

Bubble Tip Anemone (entacmaea quadricolor)

Bubble-tip Anemone – Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
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The Bubble-tip anemone (entacmaea quadricolor) is also known as the BTA in the aquarium trade. They are one of the more attractive looking anemones although their colors can vary from drab to brightly color...
Swimming Anemone (Boloceroides mcmurrichi)

Swimming Anemone – Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
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The Swimming Anemone, Boloceroides mcmurrichi is fairly common in the shallows in Tanzanian waters. As can be seen in the images they obtain their name from their ability to swim.  The anemones swimming in ...
Beaded Anemone, Heteractis aurora is also known as the Aurora anemone or Beaded sand Anemone

Beaded Anemone – Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
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The Beaded Anemone, Heteractis aurora is also known as the Aurora anemone or Beaded Sand Anemone . They obtain their name from the swellings on the tentacles which give the impression of strings of beads. T...
Gorgonian weapper Nemanthus species

Gorgonian Wrapper – Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
278
The Gorgonian wrapper (Nemanthus species) is also known as the Tiger Anemone. They are a species of communal anemones that are usually found wrapped around Gorgonian corals and Whip corals. Occasionally the...
Tube Anemone

Tube Anemone – Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
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Tube Anemone's are not anemones per se and are somewhere in-between anemones and corals. They are in the sub class Ceriantharia and live inside long tubes which go into the substrate.  In Tanzanian waters t...
Slipper coral Herpolitha limax

Slipper Coral – Facts and Photographs

Seaunseen
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Slipper coral (Herpolitha limax) also known as boomerang or tongue coral. Theyare a large polyp stony type of mushroom coral in its own genus Herpolitha. As with the other species of mushroom corals, slippe...
magnificent sea anemone, Heteractis magnifica

Magnificent Anemone – Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
2
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The magnificent sea anemone, Heteractis magnifica is also known as the Ritteri anemone. Previously they were known as Radianthus ritteri but they have now been reclassified. They are the commonest large ane...
Dynamited Fishing

Hills of Dynamited Corals

Seaunseen
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Gigantic hills of lifeless, fragmented corals juxtapose patches of recovering reef off the remote coast of Sinda Island in Tanzania. Tanzania is home to an extensive network of coral reefs in which the biod...
bubble tip anemone

Bubble Tip Anemone

Hannah Jane
191
A bubble tip anemone (Entacmaea quadricolor) glows ethereally in the light of the photographers strobes. The anenomes have a symbiotic relationship with zooxanthellae that provide them with the majority of ...
clownfish

Nestled in Anemone Tentacles

Hannah Jane
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A clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) nestled in sea anemone tentacles. Photo taken while scuba diving off the coast of Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia with a Nikon D7000. Shot with a 60 mm lens, f/22.0, 1/60, iso 2...

Anemone Shrimp

Hannah Jane
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Anemone Shrimp photographed while scuba diving off the coast of Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia. Photographed with a Nikon D7000 with a 60 mm lense, f/22.0, 1/60, iso 200. For more information click here Photo w...
Healthy Corals

Healthy Corals off Mafia

Alan Sutton
57
Welcome to Jena Reef, a dive site off the coast of remote Mafia Island. The marine life is abundant and relatively untouched. After several weeks of diving in Dar es Salaam in silty...
Mushroom Coral

Mushroom Coral-Facts and Photographs

Seaunseen
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Mushroom coral (Fungia scutaria) is a peculiarity as corals go for several reasons,  they do not have a stable place of abode, they are non colonial in that each specimen is a single coral polyp and they do...
Mozambique Ghost Goby (Pleurosicya mossambica) also known as the Common Ghost Goby, the Toothy Goby and the Many-host Gobyon Bubble Coral

Bubble Coral- Facts and Photographs

Alan Sutton
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Bubble coral (Plerogyra sinuosa) also known as grape coral, pearl coral or bladder coral, is as unusual as corals get. They are in the main image was spotted in Chole Bay in the Mafia Island Marine Park in Tanz...
Coral Reefs

Coral Reefs

Renee Blundon
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Enjoy this collection of coral reef photos. Feel free to share or download for your desktop wallpaper, just click to enlarge then right click to save. Photo was shot with a Sony DSC-RX100M II Camera in a...