Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Animals which Live in the Corals

Animals which Live in the Coral includes:

  1. Crinoid- also known as sea lilies and feather-stars.
  2. Adult Nudibranch- also known as sea slugs and mollusks without shells.
  3. Coral Catfish- may look harmless, but there is poison in their fins.
  4. Loggerhead Sea Turtle- shell colour is reddish brown and the skin colour is brown yellow.
  5. Coral Trout- known as leopard coral trout and is the largest predatory fish on the reef.
  6. Clownfish- fishes from the subfamily amphiprioninae in the family pomacentridae.
  7. Giant Clam- also known as tridacna gigas and it lives in the Great Barrier Reef.
  8. Parrotfish- its family contain ten gernara and about 90 species.

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