Jordi Chias / Spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula) just hatched from egg case that is on Seafan (Paramuricea clavata), Ullastres seamount, Costa Brava, Llafranch, Catalunya, Spain

Alex Mustard / Large whip goby (Bryaninops amplus) with a parasitic copepod (with two trailing egg ribbons) perched on Red whip coral. Whale Rock. Fiabacet Islands, Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Ceram S...

Juergen Freund / Chambered nautilus (Nautilus pompilius) with red whip coral. Osprey Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia.

Juergen Freund / Golden damselfish (Amblyglyphidodon aureus) tending eggs laid on a whip coral, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

Juergen Freund / Coral reef landscape with abundant whip corals, Blue sea stars and hard coral, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, October 2009.

Juergen Freund / Diver observing Coral razor / Shrimp fish (Aeoliscus strigatus) camouflaged amongst whip coral on coral reef, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Model released.

Juergen Freund / View of sea surface through a Whip coral forest (Junceella sp) Kimbe Bay, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Juergen Freund / Two whip coral gobies (Bryaninops yongei) on a black coral sea whip. Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Juergen Freund / Whip coral (Gorgonaceae) Komodo NP, Indonesia

Fred Bavendam / Crescent-tail Bigeye (Priacanthus hamrur) in front of a sea fan, Uepi Island, Solomon Islands

Doug Perrine / Red whip coral {Ellisella sp} Bahamas

Chris Newbert / Underwater reef scene with Sea Whips, Gorgonian Whip Coral, blossoming Soft Corals, Guard Plate Coral, and schools of Pseudanthias, Red Sea, Egypt