Over the weekend I was diving in Key Largo. There are a few critters that I'm unsure about. Discrete ID's, or even suggestions, would be much appreciated.
1. Bleached (but live) finger coral of some kind. Without the healthy "Porites blue" shade I'm kinda stumped.
2. Encrusting Gorgonian over what I'm tentatively calling Siderastrea siderea. Is that correct?
3. Overhead view of some largish coral head. The polyp resolution is poor and I kinda gave up on trying to ID it. Any ideas? It's a fairly large coral head.
4. I thought this was a weird solitary coral, but the closest thing I can find in the Humann book is a "parachute corallimorph".
5. I'm stuck between princess parrotfish and striped parrotfish. These things have an orangey rectangle on their sides that is messing me up.
1. Bleached (but live) finger coral of some kind. Without the healthy "Porites blue" shade I'm kinda stumped.
2. Encrusting Gorgonian over what I'm tentatively calling Siderastrea siderea. Is that correct?
3. Overhead view of some largish coral head. The polyp resolution is poor and I kinda gave up on trying to ID it. Any ideas? It's a fairly large coral head.
4. I thought this was a weird solitary coral, but the closest thing I can find in the Humann book is a "parachute corallimorph".
5. I'm stuck between princess parrotfish and striped parrotfish. These things have an orangey rectangle on their sides that is messing me up.