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Any info welcome

Andy Davies

Hi Andy,

I'll leave the first to someone better at corals than I.

The second photo is of a colonial tunicate, but I can't determine which one.

The third photo is a bubble coral.

Your fish is a juvenile "Red snapper" or Two-spot snapper, Lutjanus bohar.

Your "lumpy bumpy" nudibranch, as I like to call them, looks like a Phyllidiella rosans.

Cheers,

Marli

Hi Marli

Many thanks for your help. I've found the possibles for the bubble coral to be Physogyra lichtensteini and Plerogyra sinuosa. The colony was quite massive and continuous. What would be your guess?

Many thanks

Andy

My guess (and only a guess) would be Physogyra lichtensteini.

Cheers,

Marli

Do you think the first one could be a corallimorpharian? There's a photo in Allen and steene's guide on p.62 of Discoma sp. which looks like it might be in the right ball-park but searches I've done with this name don't seem to tie up.

Thanks

Andy