Fact-file Portfolio – Coral Sea Dreaming

Find out more information about the creatures living on our coral reefs:

All 43 /Fish 24 /Issues 0 /Marine 43 /Molluscs 8 /Other 0 /Polar 0 /Sharks 3 /Symbiosis 6 /Temperate 3 /Tropical 38

Trevally Palawan — Trevally

banded seasnake — Banded Seasnake

wonderpus — Wonderpus Octopus
Photogenicus !

Emperor Shrimp on nudibranch — Emperor Shrimp rides Nudibranch
hitching - or driving ?

Cleaner shrimp with Moray — Moray with Cleaner Shrimp
Underwater dentistry

Longhorn Cowfish night — Cowfish

titan triggerfish rolling over — Titan Triggerfish

Clownfish in Anemone — Clown Anemonefish
.. which is which ?

Sleeping Parrotfish at Night — Parrotfish sleeping

Reef Octopus couple — Reef Octopus

Manta Ray silhouette light coloured underneath horizontal — Manta Rays
The peaceful 'Devil Fish'

halimeda crab — Halimeda Crab
.. wearing its greens

Bigfin Reef Squid

halimeda pipefish — Halimeda Ghost Pipefish

dragonet — Fingered Dragonet

gobi spotted with shrimp green — Goby and Blind Shrimp
watching and cleaning

Flamboyant Cuttlefish — Flamboyant Cuttlefish
Flashing colourations

seahorse brown pink — Seahorses

SeaStars 15 — Seastars
Starfish aren't fish

juvenile yellow boxfish — Yellow Boxfish

Epaulette shark walking on seabottom 05 — Epaulette Shark
Walking underwater

Crinoids City in current at night — Crinoids City at night
Colourful Crinoids

Blue Ribbon Eel — Blue Ribbon Eels
simply breathing

snake blenny in seagrass — Snake Blenny
hiding in seagrass

red crab feeding — Red Crab feeding at Night

Whale-shark-wide-ningaloo — Whale Shark
The biggest fish

hiding in coconut — Octopus Hiding
but not an alien !

clown triggerfish — Clown Triggerfish
beware sharp teeth !

Razorfish in seagrass night — Razorfish

Mimic Octopus Portrait — Mimic Octopus
Ultimate shape-shifters

blennie in bottle — Blennies
in a bottle

Reef Stonefish Synanceia verrucosa — Scorpionfish
Dangerous - or deadly

Nudibranch magnifica — Magnificent Nudibranch
A beautiful Sea Slug

Heron Island coral reef flats dusk — Coral Kingdoms

garden eels — Garden Eels
Burrowing Fish

Crab Eye Goby — Crab-eyed Goby
doing the housework

leatherbass and moray — Moray and Leatherbass hunting

banded-pipefish — Banded Pipefish

Hammerhead shark 02 vertical — Hammerhead Shark
Mysterious & misunderstood

pegasus fish — Pegasus Fish

Green Sea Turtle — Green Sea Turtle
Ancient mariners ..

painted flutemouth — Painted Trumpetfish
not a trumpet but looks like a trumpet !

Lionfish, near Lawadi, PNG — The Lionfish
Attractive - but beware !