CORALS

A NEW PAGE IN THE MARINE LIFE CATEGORY FOR CORAL (All embedded videos give the credit info)

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CONTRASTING CORAL SKELETONS

These two different types of coral skeleton are from the northern end (and just beyond) of the Delphi beach. The red marking on the second coral is some kind of natural accretion, I think – I have temporarily lost the exact details somewhere on my hard drive, but doubtless they will turn up sooner or later… You will find these red patches on shells as well as coral

COMMON ROSE CORAL

ANY IDEAS FOR THIS ONE?

Another dramatic coral you may come across – not least because there are usually one or two in the beach-harvested collection on the steps down to the beach – is Brain Coral (Diploria). Here is an example (Photo credit J. Stuby)

A CORAL GALLERY

The standard rh policy applies here – upload pictures, sort out ID / descriptions later / hope for expert advice on the ‘difficult’ ones… These images are all stills taken from a video taken at the Fowl Cay Marine Reserve (see also REEF FISH), and are each subject to change if I clip a better one, or deletion at whim.