Philippines Photo Gallery: Anilao corals

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.

octocoral Tree fern (palm) coral, Clavularia sp.

octocoral Octocoral

octocoral Pumping coral, Xenia sp.

tubastrea coral Tubastrea sp.

tubastrea coral Cave coral, Tubastrea aurea

soft coral Dendronephthya sp.

soft coral soft coral Daisy boulder coral, Goniopora cf. djiboutiensis

anchor coral Anchor coral, Euphyllia ancora

soft coral coral soft coral soft coral green tubastrea coral Other corals

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