Individual solitary coral (Heterocyathus aequicostatus) on a sea floor. Solitary coral are not colonial. They are individual,disk-shaped polyps which are able to move. This solitary coral has a commensal relationship with a sipinculid worm (Aspidosiphon corallicola,not seen) which moves the coral about by shifting the sands it rests on,preventing it from becoming buried. Photographed in Bali,Indonesia | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Douwma, Georgette |
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