Fire coral (Millepora dichotoma). Fire corals are not true corals,but hydrozoans or hydroids. Visible here are small stinging hairs covered in cells called nematocysts. The fire coral uses these as a defence mechanism against fish that may feed upon it as well as against prey for food. Photographed in the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Douwma, Georgette |
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