Great Barrier Reef Album

Blackspotted Sea Cucumber (Bohadschia graeffei) sweeps the reef with its black oral tentacles searching for food.
Small colonial tunicates (Atriolum robustum) covering the branches of a dead branching acroporid coral.
Lyre-shaped Ctenocella octocoral.
Giant clam (Tridacna sp.)
Goldbarred Butterflyfish (Chaetodon rainfordi) a bright splash of color on the reef.
Giant Sweetlips (Plectorhinchus albovittatus) showing the thick lips which are the source of the family\'s common name.
Gregarious Giant Sweetlips (Plectorhinchus albovittatus).
Gregarious Giant Sweetlips (Plectorhinchus albovittatus).
Sheets of Sinularia soft coral covers the reef crest.
Surveyor Samantha Clements peforming a benthic transect.
Triton\'s Trumpet (Charonia tritonis) is the main predator of Crown Of Thorns Seastars.
False Clown Anemonefish (Amphiprion ocellaris) in their host Magnificent Sea Anemone (Heteractis magnifica).
Close-up of False Clown Anemonefish (Amphiprion ocellaris).
Closeup of the polyps from a Goniopora coral.
Orange sea fan (Subergorgia sp.) and red sea whips.
Painted Crayfish (Panulirus versicolor) looks out from its hiding spot.
Large (> 1m diameter) red sea fan (family Melithaeidae).
White-spotted Puffer (Arothron hispidus).
Golden Shadow at sunset.
Barrier Reef Anemonefish (Amphiprion akindynos) in host anemone,
Coeloseris mayori coral.
Colorful mantle of giant clam (Tridacna sp.)
Flowery polyps of the alcyoniarian soft coral Tubipora musica.
Goniopora coral with polyps extended and retracted.
Leopard Coral Grouper (Plectropomus leopardus).
Many-spotted Sweetlips (Plectorhinchus chaetodontoides).
Pectinia paeonia coral.
Porites cylindrica with Black-axil Chromis (Chromis atripectoralis).
Sapsucking slug (Thuridilla sp.)
Abby Cannon surveying corals.
Seafan with Reticulated Dascyllus damselfishes.
Small Spotted Blenny ( ) hiding in Pectinia alcicornis.
Soft coral with polyps extended (likely Sinularia sp.).
Steephead Parrotfish (Chlorurus microrhinos) along with a grouper, damselfishes, and surgeonfishes.
Crown of Thorns Seastar eating Platygyra coral.
Gray Reef Shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) in open water.
School of fusiliers cruising by the reef crest.
Brett Taylor with stereo camera searches for sharks while a remora looks for a place to attach.
Sunset over the Great Barrier Reef at the end of a long survey day.
Twilight time on the M/V Golden Shadow.

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