Fred Bavendam / Leather Coral (Sarcophyton trocheliophorum) releasing egg-sperm bundles during mass spawning of corals on the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
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Francis Abbott / Leather coral with polyps exted {Sarcophyton trocheliophorum} Red Sea
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Peter Scoones / Bleached leather coral caused by loss of algae. Maldives.
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Constantinos Petrinos / Common egg ovula / Cowry {Ovula ovum} feeding on Mushroom leather {Sarcophyton sp}
Constantinos Petrinos / Common Cowry {Ovula ovum} feeding on Mushroom leather coral {Sarcophyton sp} Lembeh Strait, Sulawesi Indonesia
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Constantinos Petrinos / Bleached soft leather coral {Sinularia sp} Sulawesi Indonesia. Temperature change results in loss of symbiotic zooxanthellae from tissues of polyps, this exposes white calcium carbonate skeleton.
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Jeff Rotman / Polyps of soft leather coral feeding at night {Sarcophyton} Red Sea
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David Fleetham / Close-up of leather coral polyps (Sarcophyton sp.), Malaysia.
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Pete Oxford / Leather Coral (Sarcophyton sp), Banda Sea, Indonesia
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Pete Oxford / Leather coral, Raja Ampat Islands, Indonesia
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Roberto Rinaldi / Polyps of white leather coral (Lobophytum sp), Tubbataha Reef, Philippines.
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Roberto Rinaldi / Blue coral (heliopora sp) surrounded by finger leather coral (Sinularia sp), Lankayan island, Borneo, Malaysia.
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Constantinos Petrinos / Giant frogfish {Antennarius commerson} on mushroom leather coral {Sarcophyton sp} Sulawesi, Indonesia
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Fred Bavendam / Black Egg Cowry (Ovula ovum) feeding on a colony of Leather Coral (Sarcophyton sp) on a shallow reef, Manado, North Sulawesi
Alex Mustard / Striped triplefin (Helcogramma striatum) resting on the underside of a bleached Leather coral (Sarcophyton sp.). The bleaching occurred as a result of elevated water temperatures in late 2022, due to...
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Alex Mustard / Silverside (Atherinidae) shoal massing over a coral reef, with Digitate leather coral (Sinularia sp.), evading a predator, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Ceram Sea, Pacific Ocean.
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Alex Mustard / Digitate leather coral (Sinularia sp.) bleached as a result of elevated water temperatures, which cause the coral to expel its zooxanthellae. This bleaching occured in late 2022, due to warming water...
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Alex Mustard / Digitate leather coral (Sinularia sp.) bleached as a result of elevated water temperatures, which cause the coral to expel its zooxanthellae. This bleaching occured in late 2022, due to warming water...
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Alex Mustard / Leather coral (Sarcophyton sp.) framed in Snell's window, Tubbataha Atolls, Palawan, Philippines, Sulu Sea.
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Alex Mustard / Yellowmargin moray (Gymnothorax flavimarginatus) peering out from Digitate leather coral (Sinularia sp.) on a reef, Ari Atoll, Maldives, Indian Ocean.
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Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Cabbage leather coral (Sinularia brassica) on white background, Fort Wayne Children's Zoo. Captive.
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Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Toadstool leather coral (Sarcophyton sp.) on white background, Indianapolis Zoo. Captive.
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Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Toadstool leather coral (Sarcophyton sp.) on black background, Indianapolis Zoo. Captive.
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Alex Mustard / RF - Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) swimming over Leather corals (Sarcophyton sp.) on a coral reef, Laamu Atoll, Maldives, Indian Ocean. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed...
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Alex Mustard / Solar-powered nudibranch (Phyllodesmium longicirrum) feeding on Leather corals (Sarcophyton sp.) with a Black-spotted egg cowrie (Calpurnus verrucosus) in background, Ambon Bay, Maluku Archipelago, In...
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Alex Mustard / Large aggregation of Glassfish (Apogonidae) swimming around with leather corals (Sarcophyton sp.) on a coral reef, Laamu Atoll, Maldives, Indian Ocean.
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David Fleetham / Leather coral (Sarcophyton trocheliophorum) colony with polyps withdrawn. The surrounding colonies polyps are extended and feeding, Philippines, Philippine Sea.
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Alex Mustard / Leather corals (Sarcophyton sp.) fluoresce at night under blue light on a coral reef. Laamu Atoll, Maldives. Indian Ocean.
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Alex Mustard / Daytime and nightimte photos showing leather coral (Sarcophyton sp.) fluorescence at night under blue light on a coral reef, beneath a resort. Laamu Atoll, Maldives. Indian Ocean.
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Alex Mustard / RF - Rich coral garden with hard corals (Montipora sp), Brain coral (Goniastrea sp, Lobophytum sp.) and lots of Lemon damsel (Pomacentrus moluccensis) and Ternate chromis fish (Chromis ternatenis). Ru...
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Alex Mustard / Denise's pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus denise) on a red and white seafan (Melithaea sp). Wayil Batan Island, Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Ceram Sea, Tropical West Pacific Ocean.
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Alex Mustard / RF - Rays of sunshine over a shallow coral garden, with hard corals Staghorn coral (Acropora sp.), Leather coral: (Sargophyton sp), Staghorn damsel: (Amblyglyphidodon curacao) Yellowtail damsel (Neogl...
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Nick Hawkins / Close up of a leather coral (Sarcophyton sp.) in the shallow waters of Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia.
