Great Barrier Reef Album

Large mounds of Porites lobata and round thickets of Porites cylindrica in the shallows at one of our survey sites.
Leopard shark (Stegostoma fasciatum).
Meter long Tridacna gigas giant clam showing gills inside incurrent siphon.
Red-gilled Nembrotha (Nembrotha purpureolineata) nudibranch.
Risbecia tryoni nudibranch
Unidentified oddity is either a mass of tiny blue eggs or some sort of colonial tunicate.
Chromodoris coi nudibranch.
Colorful reef scene along a sloping drop-off.
Olive Sea Snake (Aipysurus laevis) investigating Konrad Hughen\'s transect while he works.
Pseudoceros dimidiatus, a highly variable and beautiful flatworm.
Echinophyllia coral showing bright orange polyp mouths.
Blue Coral (Heliopora coerulea), the only octocoral known to produce a limestone skeleton (which is blue instead of the normal white).
False Clown Anemonefish (Amphiprion ocellaris)
Female Spinecheek Anemonefish (Premnas biaculeatus) in host Bulb-tip Anemone (Entacmaea quadricolor).
Fluorescent orange Lobophyllia coral polyp.
Fluorescent red Lobophyllia coral with dead polyp covered by a corallimorph.
Leopard Coral Grouper (Plectopomus leopardus)
Longfin Spadefish (Platax teira)
Undescribed (Paguritta sp.) coral hermit crab residing in burrow in live coral.
Lovely red table Acropora millepora coral.
Sponge and corallimorphs covering dead area of Porites lobata.
Taringa halgerda dorid nudibranch.
A yellow boring sponge sends up
Beautiful Goby (Exyrias bellisimus)
Brilliant Headshield Slug (Chelidonura electra)
Crocodile Flathead (Cymbacephalus beauforti)
Geometric texture of Goniopora coral polyps.
Large colony of compound tunicates.
Ridges and grooves of Pachyseris coral.
Ruffled rosettes of Turbinaria corals.
Tawny Nurse Shark (Nebrinus ferrugineus)
Blue-spotted Ribbontail Ray (Taeniura lymma)
Multi-lined Sweetlips (Plectorhinchus multivittatum)
Small black and yellow spotted flatworm swimming through the water column like a magic carpet.
Spotted Eagle Ray (Aetobatus ocellatus)
Zebra Shark (Stegostoma fasciatum)
Candycane Sea Cucumber (Thelonota rubralineata)
Phyllidia calsonhoffi nudibranch
Silvertip Shark (Carcharhinus albimarginatus)
Table acroporid, large polyp Lobophyllia and other corals growing near the surface of a sloping drop-off.

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