Red Sea diving safari 2001, Part 4 (last)

Corals, mussels and invertebrates

The comments in this section are very briefly, since I don't have a book yet to determin all of the species displayed. The nature of the shown animals is not characterised by extensive movement. Thus, there is not much to get some conclusions for comments from, sorry.

Fire coral and soft coral Branching fire coral (left, brown) and soft corals (red in the middle and the blue on the right side)
Finger coral Finger coral (Porites porites) and its inhabitants, a school of Green Damselfish (Chromis viridis).
Mussel This living mussel shut when it saw something dangerous.
Featherstar This beautiful Featherstar I have seen at my very first night dive. It is not that easy to take fotos at night, the more amazing is the quality of this shot. Well, beginners luck.
Spanish Dancer The red thing in the middle is a Spanish Dancer (Hexabranchus sanguineus). It is an invertebrate, a snail, with no housing.
Unknown This is a Pleurobranchus grandis. However I still don't know the english name. If someone knows what it is, please write to me! Thanks.
Unknown See above.
Starfish

A Starfish (Fromia sp.). This picture is a bit blurry. However, the starfish is pretty rare though, so I decided to include it to this series.

Diameter ca. 10-15 cm.

Soft corals

And finally some more soft corals. Eventhough this shot looks a bit surrealistic, I sware that it is not grafically modified.

Mick und Sarah Good bye, Mick und Sarah! Many thanks to the two of you and your crew for this wonderful week on board of the Ghazala Voyager!
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