110716 Kusu Island

The tide was extremely low today, revealing a huge expanse of coral.




Large stretches of coral growth.


Heliopora blue coral dominated quite a lot of the shore.


Soft coral.


A large patch of Montipora in the lagoon.


Goniopora.


Fungiidae.


A shrimp crosses some Mussidae coral.


Galaxea coral.


Pavona coral.


Ridged Montipora.


Octopus.


Acanthozoon flatworm.


Phyllidiella pustulosa.



Crinoids.


This looks like a really tiny (5 mm diameter) Cassiopea upside down sea jelly.


There were many saron shrimp out on the sand.


Grapsus albolineatus crab.


Tiny fiddler crab (1 cm across).


Actinopyga lecanora.


Holothuria notabilis.


Chay Hoon found this small razor fish.


She also found this strange thing which Ria suggested it might be an Edwardsiidae anemone.


A pair of Amphiprion ocellaris anemonefish in Stichodactyla gigantea.


Stichodactyla gigantea.


A rock covered by Heteractis magnifica.


Heteractis magnifica attached to a tyre.


This looks like Macrodactyla anemone but it has a bumpy column and pink tentacle tips and is more likely to be Heteractis crispa.


Many of these small anemones on the rocks.



Paraiptasia radiata.



Not sure if I saw Anthopleura dixoniana at Kusu before.


Corallimorphs. Interesting to see the left one curled up like that.