Christmas tree hydroid – Idroide piumato

Pennaria disticha, also known as the Christmas tree hydroid, is a species of athecate hydroid in the family Pennariidae. Colonies are common in the Mediterranean Sea growing on rocks close to the surface. This species has been used in research into prey capture. Colonies of Pennaria disticha consist of numerous much-branched stems up to 30 cm high. The branching system is alternate.

Titan triggerfish Balestra titano

The Titan triggerfish, Giant triggerfish or Moustache triggerfish (Balistoides viridescens) is a large species of triggerfish found in lagoons and at reefs to depths of 50 m. in most of the Indo-Pacific region. Is diurnal and solitary fish. It feeds on sea urchins, molluscs, crustaceans, tube worms, and coral. It often feeds by turning over rocks, stirring up sand and biting off pieces of branching coral.

Coral reef in Oslob Philippines

The video you are watching was taken in a coral reef in Oslob, Philippines. The coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals. Reefs are formed of colonies of coral polyps held together by calcium carbonate. Most coral reefs are built from stony corals, whose polyps cluster in groups. Coral belongs to the class Anthozoa the animal phylum Cnidaria, which includes sea anemones and jellyfish.

Moorish idol

The Moorish idol (Zanclus cornutus) is a marine fish species, the sole extant representative of the family Zanclidae in order Acanthuriformes. A common inhabitant of tropical to subtropical reefs and lagoons, the Moorish idol is notable for its wide distribution throughout the Indo-Pacific. A number of butterflyfishes (genus Heniochus) closely resemble the Moorish idol.

Plectorhinchus orientalis

The Indian Ocean oriental sweetlips inhabits shallow coastal coral reefs, lagoons and seaward reefs at depths of 2 to 25 m. It is found singly or in small aggregations and is tends to be nocturnal. The juveniles may be found in tidepools and in beds of sea grass. It forages at night feeding on small invertebrates such crustaceans, gastropods or annelids, as well as smaller fishes.

Monodactylus argenteus

Monodactylus argenteus is a species of fish in the family Monodactylidae, the moonyfishes. Its common names include silver moonyfish, or silver moony, butter bream, and diamondfish. It is native to the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, including the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, and associated estuaries, such as the Mekong Delta. It is bright shiny silver with yellowish edges to the fins.

Goldspotted Rabbitfish

Goldspotted Rabbitfish, Siganus punctatus, or goldspotted spinefoot, punctuated spinefoot, spotted rabbitfish, spotted spinefoot, yellow-spotted spinefoot, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a rabbitfish belonging to the family Siganidae. It occurs in the Indo-West Pacific region. It occurs down to 40 m. in depth in clear lagoons and on seaward reefs as adults while the juveniles school in estuaries.

Red-breasted Wrasse

The Red-breasted wrasse (Cheilinus fasciatus) belongs Actinopterygii class, Labriformes order,Labridae family. It lives in the lagoons and coral reefs of the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea.Young people prefer areas with a lot of aquatic vegetation, adults are often found in areas rich in corals and with sandy bottoms. It can be found up to 60 m deep.

Blue-barred parrotfish

Blue-barred parrotfish, Scarus ghobban, is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the family Scaridae. This species is blue-green to green in colour and commonly grows to approximately 46 cm. Its appearance is variable. It may have a central stripe on the dorsal and anal fins that is pink in color. The underside of the body may be pinkish or yellowish.

School of Smallspotted Dart

The Small Spotted Dart can reach a maximum length of 60 cm in males and a maximum weight of 1,5 Kg. The body color varies from silvery blue to grey above, with some small black spots on the flanks. The number of these spots increases with age. This fish is silvery white below. It has large, strong fins, a forked tail, and a narrow base.

Spotted Eagle Ray

The Spotted Eagle Ray, (Aetobatus narinari), is a cartilagionus fish of the eagle ray family, Myliobatidae. As traditionally recognized, it is found globally in tropical regions, including the Atlantic, pacific and Indian Oceans. Spotted eagle rays are most commonly seen alone, but occasionally swim in groups. They are ovoviviparous, the female retaining the eggs then releasing the young as miniature versions of the parent. This ray can be identified by its dark dorsal surface covered in white spots or rings.

Horned Sea Star

The Horned Sea Star, Protoreaster nodosus, commonly known as chocolate chip sea star, is a species of sea star found in the warm, shallow waters of the Indo-Pacific region. They are sometimes seen in the marine aquarium trade or dried and sold as curios. The sea stars are usually colored in shades of red or brown, but can be light tan, the color of cookie dough. This appearance, combined with the small horns on its dorsal side, give the sea star a look similar to that of a bumpy cookie.

Rhinecanthus verrucosus

The blackbelly triggerfish is a territorial species and defends its territory against other triggerfish including the lagoon triggerfish (Rhinecanthus aculeatus). Its habitat in lagoons and reef flats where it favours areas with seaweed, corals, seagrasses, sandy flats, and stony places. It may move from place to place according to the status of the tide.

Cetriolo di Mare tropicale

Graeffe's sea cucumber tropical is a scavanger and roams around on the seabed sifting through the sediment with its feeding tentacles. Any organic matter it finds is passed to its mouth by the tentacles. Its daily activities start within a few minutes of dawn and continue until half an hour after sunset after which time it adopts an inactive stance with its rear end raised and its tentacles retracted into its mouth.

Redang Island Malaysia Turtle Sanctuary

This video was made on the island of Redang in Malaysia during a boat trip to go to the famous Turtle Sanctuary: in fact, in certain periods of the year many turtles reach this location to lay their eggs. They have thus also become a tourist attraction and are so used to the presence of man that they allow themselves to be approached very easily.

Striped Eel Catfish

Striped Eel Catfish, is a species of eeltail catfishes belonging to the family Plotosidae. Like most other members of the genus Plotosus. they possesses highly venomous spines that they can use to sting when threatened. The venom can cause mild to severe symptoms in humans.

Vermiculated Angelfish

The Vermiculated Angelfish, Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus, is a species of marine ray-finned fish a marine angelfish belonging to the family Pomacanthidae. It is found in the Indo-West Pacific region. Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus has blue lips contrasting with its yellow face.

Yellow-lipped sea krait

The yellow-lipped sea krait (Laticauda colubrina), also known as the banded sea krait or colubrine sea krait, is a species of venomous sea snake found in tropical Indo-Pacific oceanic waters. The snake has distinctive black stripes and a yellow snout, with a paddle-like tail for use in swimming.

Whale Shark

This video was made in Oslob, Philippines, where the whale sharks are fed shrimp by the locals. The sharks have become accustomed to showing up every morning and tourist operators have made a business out of it by bringing visitors, divers and scholars to admire and photograph these splendid fish.

Blue sea star Linckia laevigata

Linckia laevigata (sometimes called the "blue Linckia" or blue star) is a species of sea star in the shallow waters of tropical Indo-pacific. These sea stars may grow up to 30 cm in diameter, with rounded tips at each of the arms; some individuals may bear lighter or darker spots along each of their arms.

Orange-spotted spinefoot

Orange-spotted spinefoot (Siganus guttatus), also known as the Deepbody spinefoot, Gold-saddle rabbitfish, Golden rabbitfish, Golden-spotted spinefoot, Goldlined spinefoot or Yellowblotch spinefoot, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a rabbitfish belonging to the family Siganidae. It is found in the eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.

Brown Surgeonfis

Brown surgeonfis, Acanthurus nigrofuscus, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acanthuridae, has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution from the coast of eastern Africa as far north as the Red Sea coast and south as far as far south as the Aliwal Shoal in South Africa.

Dusky Parrotfish

Dusky parrotfish, Scarus niger, common names the swarthy parrotfish, and black parrotfish, is a species of parrotfish. It is in the phylum Chordata, class Actinopterygii and family Scaridae. The presence of the swarthy parrotfish in large and small reef communities contributes to diversity and therefore the resilience of the ecosystem. The reef ecosystem may be dramatically shifted in the absence of the swarthy parrotfish.

Lobactis scutaria

Lobactis is a genus of plate or mushroom coral in the family Fungiidae. The genus is monotypic with a single species, Lobactis scutaria, that is found in the Indo-Pacific region. Is a solitary, non-colonial coral that is free living and not attached to the seabed. It is discoid or elongated in shape and can grow to a very large size.

Brown Mesh Sea Star

Brown Mesh Sea Star, Nardoa galatheae, is a genus of sea stars in the family Ophidiasteridae. The Ophidiasteridae are a family of sea stars with about 30 genera. Occurring both in the Indo-Pacific and Atlantic Oceans; ophidiasterids are greatest in diversity in the Indo-Pacific.

El Nido, Panglao, Oslob in the Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. In the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of 7641 island, with a total area of 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geografical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Manila is the country’s capital and its most populated city is Quezon City.

Powder-blue surgeonfish

Acanthurus leucosternon, commonly known as the blue surgeonfish, powder blue tang or powder-blue surgeonfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acanthuridae. This species is found in the Indian Ocean.The powder blue tang is rarely harvested for anything other than the marine aquarium industry. It is a commonly sold fish that is moderately difficult to care for.

Specklefin grouper from Maldives

Epinephelus ongus, (the white-streaked grouper, specklefin grouper, lace-finned rock-cod, specklefin rockcod, wavy-lined tock-cod, white-speckled grouper or white-spotted rock-cod) is a grouper from the subfamily Epenephelinae which is part of the family Serranidae, which also includes the anthias and sea basses. It has a wide Indo-Pcific distribution and it is found in brackish waters as well as marine reefs.

Acropora robusta coral

Is a branching stony coral with cylindrical branches ranging from a few centimetres to over two metres in length and height. It occurs in back reef and fore reef environments from 0 to 30 m depth. It occurs in irregular colonies consisting of thick branches towards the centre, but its outer branches are thinner. Its rasp-like radial corallites can be of a variety of diameters and shapes.

Scribbled Filefish

Scribbled Filefish, Aluterus scriptus, commonly known as Scrawled filefish, Broomtail filefish or Scribbled leatherjacket, is a marine fish belonging to the family Monacanthidae. This species has a circumtropical repartition, it can be found in the tropical waters from the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

Long-spine Porcupinefish

The Long-spine Porcupinefish, Diodon holocanthus, also known as the freckled porcupinefish among other vernacular names, is a species of marine fish in the family Diodontidae. Is an omnivore that feeds on mollusks, sea urchins, hermit crabs, snails and crabs during its active phase at.

Cushion sea star Culcita schmideliana

Cushion sea star, Culcita schmideliana, commonly known as the spiny cushion star, is a species of pin-cushion star which looks more like a hedgehog without its spines than the starfish we generally know. It has a variety of base colors and often patches of a different color. It is pentagonal in shape and lives in the tropical Indo-Pacific.

Yellow scroll Coral

The Yellow scroll Coral, Turbinaria reniformis, is a species of colonial stony coral in the family Dendrophylliidae. It is native to the Indo-Pacific region. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being “vulnerable” due to warming of the sea due to the increase in temperature across the planet.

Blackstreak surgeonfish

Blackstreak surgeonfish, Acanthurus nigricauda, or epaulette surgeonfish, eye-line surgeonfish, shoulderbar surgeonfish, white-tail surgeonfish, is a tropical fish in the family Acanthuridae. It is native to the Indo-Pacific region. It occurs over sandy and rocky bottoms, in bays, lagoons and on reef slopes, at depths down to about 30 m.

Flowerpot coral

The Flowerpot coral, Goniopora lobata, is a genus of colonial stony coral found in lagoons and turbid water conditions. Goniopora have numerous daisy-like polyps that extend outward from the base, each tipped with 24 stinging tentacles which surrounds a mouth.

Indian Damsel

The Indian Damsel fish lives in the coral reefs of the Indo-Pacific from the surface to a depth of 15 meters. These fish live in groups that can even be numerous; they lead a mainly diurnal life and are quite easy to approach by snorkeling (as you can see from the video).