Great Barrier Reef Album

A colorful assortment of acroporid and pocilloporid corals cover the shallow reef crest.
Digitate Acropora monticulosa close-up showing individual polyps forming geometric designs.
Male (smaller & bright red) and female (larger & more dusky red) Spinecheek Anemonefish (Premnas biaculeatus) in their Bulb Tentacle Sea Anemone (Enacmaea quadricolor) host.
Shallow reef crest (3 meter depth) covered with Acropora and Pocillopora corals.
Silvery Snubnose Pompano (Trachinotus blochi) swimming over a school of Diagonal-banded Sweetlips (Plectorhinchus lineatus).
Ahhh... Sunrise!
Oooo... Sunset!
Blotchfin Scorpionfish (Scorpaenodes varipinnis)
Humpnose Unicornfish (Naso tonganus)
Pink Anemonefish (Amphiprion perideraion) in Magnificent Anemone--how it looks to the camera.
Pink Anemonefish (Amphiprion perideraion) in Magnificent Anemone--how it looks to the naked eye underwater.
A pyrosome (free-floating mass of colonial tunicates) along with Blue and Yellow Fusiliers (Caesio teres)
Symphillia coral detail.
Two-spot Snapper (Lutjanus biguttatus)
Two-spot Snapper (Lutjanus biguttatus)
Whitetip Reef Shark (Triaenodon obesus)
Whitetip Reef Shark (Triaenodon obesus) getting in the way of science.
Blue-spotted Stingray (Dasyatis kuhlii).
Fuchsia Flatworm (Pseudoceros ferrugineus).
Giant Moray (Gymnothorax javanicus).
Golden Spadefish (Platax boersii) juvenile.
School of Striped Catfish (Plotosus lineatus).
Slender Lizardfish (Saurida gracilis) perched on rubbery Sinularia soft coral.
Deepwater seafan and dark green Tubastrea micrantha coral.
Pom-pom coral (Euphyllia glabrescens).
Pulsing flower-like polyps of the Xenia soft coral.
Tall coral pinnacle capped with a Porites lobata rises out of the dusky gloom.
Enormous giant clam (Tridacna sp.) approximately 1 meter across and possibly up to 100 years old.
Orange-banded Coralfish (Coradion chrysozonus)
Scribbled Angelfish (Chaetodontoplus duboulayi) a striking species we have not encountered before during the Global Reef Expedition.
Undescribed species of sea cucumber (Stichopus sp.) with interesting striped pattern and upolstered texture.
Small brown speckled ray that so far has remained unidentified.
Crown-of-thorns Seastar hiding under coral with evidence of recent feeding on the white coral skeleton
Dendronephthya soft coral (
Fresh (hollow) molt of the exoskeleton of a Painted Crayfish (Panulirus ornatus).
Andy Bruckner and Alex Dempsey processing Crown-of-thorns Seastars.
Close-up of blue-tipped Acropora colony.
Crinoids nestling in Pavona coral.
Fire coral makes doing transects difficult.
Fluorescent bright red Lobophyllia.

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