We took an underwater photography trip to the Philippines in December 2016.
Octocorals have an internal skeleton and polyps with eight tentacles. Octocorals are colonial organisms.
tree fern (palm) coral, Clavularia sp.
octocoral
Pumping coral, Xenia sp.
Tubastrea sp.
Cave coral, Tubastrea aurea
Dendronephthya sp.
Daisy boulder coral, Goniopora cf. djiboutiensis
Anchor coral, Euphyllia ancora
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