Colorful Soft Corals and Various Pristine Hard Corals Flourish on a Fijian Reef

Colorful dendronephthya soft corals and various hard corals, flourishing on a pristine healthy south pacific coral reef. The soft corals are inflated in strong ocean currents, capturing passing planktonic food with their many small polyps. Nigali Passage, Gau Island, Lomaiviti Archipelago, Fiji, Dendronephthya, natural history stock photograph, photo id 31383
Colorful dendronephthya soft corals and various hard corals, flourishing on a pristine healthy south pacific coral reef. The soft corals are inflated in strong ocean currents, capturing passing planktonic food with their many small polyps. Nigali Passage, Gau Island, Lomaiviti Archipelago, Fiji

Species: Dendronephthya soft coral, Dendronephthya
Location: Nigali Passage, Gau Island, Lomaiviti Archipelago, Fiji
Image ID: 31383
Format: Digital 2:3
Keywords: alcyonacea, animal, animalia, anthozoa, carnation coral, cnidaria, coral, coral reef, dendronephthya, fiji, fiji islands, fijian islands, gau island, island, lomaiviti archipelago, marine, marine invertebrate, nature, nephtheidae, nigali passage, oceania, pacific ocean, reef, soft coral, south pacific, tree coral, tropical, underwater
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