Tag: Macro Photography
Materials found: 9
Second Trip to Koh Tao
Returning to the island of divers
Shark Point
Dive site between Phuket and Phi Phi: pinnacles, zebra sharks, coral gardens
Steinitz' Prawn-Goby
A small bottom-dwelling fish with a long body and large eyes. It has a pale or light-colored body with wide orange-brown vertical bands. It lives together with a pistol shrimp and they share a burrow.
Amblyeleotris steinitzi
Christmas Tree Worm
The Christmas tree worm is a tube-dwelling polychaete worm (Serpulidae) living in close association with corals. Builds a calcareous tube in the skeleton/on the surface of the coral and extends two spiral "Christmas trees" (radioles) outward, which serve for respiration and food filtration; quickly retracts when threatened.
Spirobranchus giganteus
Clark's Anemonefish
Clark's anemonefish (yellowtail anemonefish) is a reef species living in symbiosis with sea anemones. Coloration varies greatly by region, usually two wide white vertical stripes are noticeable (behind the eye and in the middle part of the body), sometimes an additional narrow white stripe is present at the base of the tail, the tail is more often white or yellow.
Amphiprion clarkii
Hiby's Coriocella (Velvet Snail)
Hiby's coriocella (velvet snail) is a marine gastropod mollusk of the Velutinidae family. It has a shell, but it is hidden by mantle folds, so externally the animal resembles a sea slug and in nature often mimics a sponge.
Coriocella hibyae
Freckled Goatfish
A bottom-dwelling fish with an elongated body and two sensitive barbels on the chin, used to search for food in the sand. Light coloration with a longitudinal dark stripe and rows of spots on the sides.
Upeneus tragula
Green Chromis
A small schooling reef fish of bright green or bluish-green coloration with a forked caudal fin. Inhabits above branching corals, forming dense schools and feeding on zooplankton.
Chromis viridis
Lambert's Worm Sea Cucumber
A thin worm-like sea cucumber of whitish color, often forming dense aggregations on sponges and corals. Feeds on organic particles and detritus, collecting them from the substrate surface using tentacles.
Synaptula lamperti