Chris Newbert / Seahorse (Hippocampus sp) on Sea Fan (Muricella sp) 80 feet deep, Solomon Islands

Juergen Freund / Red Fan coral and whip corals with hundreds of Fairy basslets {Pseudanthias sp} Papua New Guinea

Juergen Freund / Pink anemone fish {Amphiprion perideraion} in sea anemone with whip corals in background, Indo-pacific

Juergen Freund / Schooling razorfish / shrimpfish {Aeoliscus strigatus} over sea whip coral with diver, Papua New Guinea

Juergen Freund / Whip corals + huge Fan coral + Basslets {Pseudanthias sp} + diver with flashlight in background, Papua New Guinea

Juergen Freund / Red fan coral and whip corals with shoal of fairy basslets {Psuedanthias sp} and diver in background, Papua New Guinea

Juergen Freund / Chambered / Pearly nautilus {Nautilus pompilius} against fan coral, Australia.

Solvin Zankl / Whip coral dwarf gobies with eggs on coral {Bryaninops youngei} Sulawesi

Solvin Zankl / Whip coral dwarf goby with copepod parasites {Bryaninops youngei} Sulawesi

Juergen Freund / Whip coral {Ellisella sp} with feather stars, Indo Pacific

Chris Newbert / Sea Fan (Melithaea sp) small Sea Fan (Subergorgia sp) and Fusiliers on a coral reef, 50 feet deep, Papua New Guinea

Birgitte Wilms / Sea Fan (Melithaea sp) Sea Fan (Acabaria sp) Sea Whips (Ctenocella ellisella sp) and Golden Damselfish (Amblyglyphidodon aureus) 100 feet deep, Solomon Islands

Chris Newbert / Sea Fan (Subergorgia sp) Soft Coral (Dendronephthya sp) and Anthias (Pseudanthias sp) 50 feet deep, Red Sea, Egypt

Chris Newbert / Sea Fan (Melithaea sp) on coral reef, 50 feet deep, Solomon Islands

Birgitte Wilms / Sea Fan (Subergorgia sp) surrounded by schooling reef fish, Red Sea, Egypt

Chris Newbert / Sea Whips on Palau reef, Palau

Chris Newbert / Triplefin (Helcogramma sp) on Sea Fan (Muricella sp) 80 feet deep, Solomon Islands

Chris Newbert / Seahorse (Hippocampus sp) holding on to Sea Fan (Echinogorgia sp) 60 feet deep, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Birgitte Wilms / Seahorse (Hippocampus sp) on Sea Fan (Melithaea sp) 40 feet deep, Solomon Islands

Chris Newbert / Reef scenic with Sea Fans (Melithaea sp) and Fusiliers (Caesio sp) 70 feet deep, Solomon Islands

Chris Newbert / Soft Coral (Dendronephthya sp) in front of Sea Fans (Melithaea sp) 50 feet deep, Solomon Islands

Chris Newbert / Seahorse (Hippocampus sp) pregnant male on Sea Fan (Melithaea sp) 50 feet deep, Solomon Islands

Chris Newbert / Sponge (Diacarnus spinipoculum) and Soft Coral (Ellisella sp) 90 feet deep, Solomon Islands

Birgitte Wilms / Seahorse (Hippocampus sp) pregnant male on Sea Fan (Muricella sp) 80 feet deep, Solomon Islands

Chris Newbert / Sea Fan (Melithaea sp) detail of curled arms, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Chris Newbert / Giant Basket Star (Astrophyton muricatum) juvenile on Common Sea Fan (Gorgonia ventalina), Belize

Chris Newbert / Anthozoan (Melithaea sp) on coral, Palau

Chris Newbert / Sea Fan (Melithaea sp) on coral reef, Palau

Chris Newbert / Soft Coral (Melithaea squamata) detail, Palau

Hiroya Minakuchi / Whip Coral Partner Shrimp (Dasycaris zanzibarica), Sulu Sea, Borneo, Malaysia

Hiroya Minakuchi / Loki Whip-goby (Bryaninops loki) pair on coral, Sulu Sea, Borneo, Malaysia

Norbert Wu / Seahorse (Hippocampus sp) on Sea Fan, related to Pipefish, Papua New Guinea

Chris Newbert / Soft Coral (Ellisella sp) growing on coral reef, Solomon Islands

Chris Newbert / Soft Coral (Dendronephthya sp) Sea Fan (Melithaea sp) and schooling reef fish, Papua New Guinea

Chris Newbert / Gilded Pipefish (Corythoichthys schultzi) in Gorgonian Sea Fan (Melithaea sp), Palau

Chris Newbert / Seahorse (Hippocampus sp) pregnant male on Sea Fan (Muricella sp) 80 feet deep, Solomon Islands

Chris Newbert / Sea Fan (Melithaea sp) group and Soft Corals (Dendronephthya sp) and fish, 50 feet deep, Solomon Islands

Birgitte Wilms / Sponge (Psammoclemma sp) in front of Sea Fan (Melithaea sp) and reef fishes, 110 feet deep, Solomon Islands

Birgitte Wilms / Seahorse (Hippocampus sp) on Sea Fan (Muricella sp) 80 feet deep, Solomon Islands

Chris Newbert / Common Lionfish (Pterois volitans) group surrounded by Sea Fans (Melithaea sp) 60 feet deep, Solomon Islands

Fred Bavendam / Diver swimming among boulders covered with Sponges, Golden Zoanthid and Gorgonian Sea Whips, Tasman Peninsula, Australia

Fred Bavendam / Feather Star (Comanthina schlegelii) sitting on Whip Gorgonians (Ellisella sp), Flinders Reef, Coral Sea, Australia

Fred Bavendam / Diver photographing a Coral Bommie adorned with Crinoids and Gorgonian Sea Fans (Melithaea sp), Menjangan Island, Bali, Indonesia

Fred Bavendam / Fish feeding in the water above a Sea Fan (Melithaea sp) and a Feather Star (Oxycomanthus bennetti), Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea

Fred Bavendam / Black Coral Shrimp (Pontonides unciger) living on a black Coral Sea whip (Cirripathes sp), Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea

Fred Bavendam / Sea Fan (Solenocaulon sp) growing amidst small Soft Corals (Dendronephthya sp), Andaman Sea, Thailand

Fred Bavendam / Sea Fan (Gorgoniidae) and red and yellow Soft Coral (Dendronephthya sp) covering rock, Ko Tachi, Andaman Sea, Thailand

Fred Bavendam / Sea Fan (Junceella sp) stand on a deep reef slope at a depth of about 25mm, Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea

Juergen Freund / Whip Coral (Ctenocella sp) Indo Pacific

Juergen Freund / Colonial anemones {Nemanthus annamensis} on whip coral, Indo-Pacific

Michael Pitts / Sea whip coral with Crinoid. Papua New Guinea

Francis Abbott / Coral reef with Sea whip {Junceella sp} + Black coral {Antipathes sp}. Indian ocean

David Hall / Shrimpfish / Razorfish in red whip coral (Aeoliscus strigatus)

Michael Pitts / Sea whip coral with sponge Papua New Guinea

Jeff Rotman / Brittlestar on Sea whip coral. (Ophiurida) Caribbean. Night. Soft coral.

Roberto Rinaldi / Diver and red whip coral or gorgonian whip coral (juncella sp), Palau.

Roberto Rinaldi / Coral reef with long sea whips (Ellisella elongata) in the foreground and the silhouette of a diver in the background, Roatan, Honduras. Model released.

Fred Bavendam / Coral with extended polyps for feeding, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Roberto Rinaldi / Diver with colourful sponges, whip corals and pink jewel anemones, Tasmania, Australia.

Roberto Rinaldi / A scuba diver exploring underwater with Whip corals (Gorgonacea sp) and Orange finger sponges (Neoesperiopsis rigida), Tasmania, Australia

Roberto Rinaldi / Pink jewel anemones (Corynactis viridis) growing on a sea-whip, Tasmania.

Roberto Rinaldi / Pink Jewel anemones (Corynactis viridis) growing on whip corals, Tasmania, Australia

Roberto Rinaldi / Red whip coral (Junceella sp), Malaysia.

Roberto Rinaldi / Scuba diver shining his torch on pink jewel anemones (Corynactis australis) Tasmania, Australia.

Roberto Rinaldi / Pink jewel anemones (Corynactis australis) growing on a seawhip, Tasmania, Australia.

Roberto Rinaldi / Spiral whip / wire coral (Stichophates sp) and diver, Philippines. Model released.

Roberto Rinaldi / Red whip coral (junceella sp), tube sponges (Cribrochalina sp?) and diver, Philippines. Model released.

Norbert Wu / Sea fan and corallimorpharian, Komodo Island, Indonesia

Norbert Wu / Sea fans swaying in the current, Bahamas, Caribbean

Juergen Freund / Whip goby {Bryaninops loki} on coral. Indo Pacific

Fred Bavendam / Feather Star Crinoid (Comanthina sp) on a Gorgonian Sea Fan (Subergorgia mollis) to better feed in the current, Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea