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California Academy of Sciences, Philippine Coral Reef Gallery

The Philippine Coral Reef Tank focuses on the most diverse and fragile of marine ecosystems. From the main exhibit floor, visitors look down on a shallow, sandy lagoon -a calm, protected area inhabited by sharks, rays, and colorful fishes. Where the lagoon drops off to the deep reef, hundreds ...more ↓

Platyzoanthus 1
Zoanthus 2
Bubble-tip Anemone 3
Entacmaea quadricolor
Sinularia 4
Acanthastrea 5
Table, Elkhorn, and Staghorn Corals 6
Acropora
Alveopora 7
Cnidarians 8
Cnidaria
Cynarina lacrymalis 9
Diploastrea 10
Echinophyllia 11
Echinophyllia aspera 12
Echinopora 10
Echinopora lamellosa 13
Ellisellidae 14
Entacmaea 3
Euphyllia
Hammer Coral 15
Euphyllia ancora
Euphyllia cristata 16
Euphyllia divisa 17
Euphyllia glabrescens 18
Favia 19
Favites 10
Fungia 20
Galaxea 21
Galaxea fascicularis 22
Goniastrea 10
Gorgoniidae 23
Halomitra 24
Heliofungia actiniformis 21
Heliopora 25
blue coral 25
Heliopora coerulea
Herpolitha limax 21
Magnificent Sea Anemone 14
Heteractis magnifica
Hydnophora 21
Hydnophora pilosa 26
Hydnophora rigida 27
Leptastrea 28
Leptoria 29
Leptoseris 19
Lobo Corals 30
Lobophyllia
Lobophyllia hemprichii 29
Merulina 21
Merulina ampliata 26
Montastrea 31
Montipora 14
Montipora aequituberculata 32
Montipora capricornis 33
Montipora digitata 34
Montipora undata 26
Mycedium 11
Mycedium elephantotus
Oulophyllia 7
Oxypora 35
Pachyseris 21
Pachyseris speciosa 25
Palythoa 36
Parazoanthus
Pavona 19
Pavona decussata 37
Pectinia 21
Physogyra lichtensteini 38
Platygyra 29
Plerogyra 14
Bubble Coral 14
Plerogyra sinuosa
brush corals 20
Pocillopora
Cauliflower Coral 39
Pocillopora damicornis
Coral
Pocillopora verrucosa
Polyphyllia 21
Porites 25
Porites cylindrica 40
Coral 41
Porites lobata
Protopalythoa 20
Psammocora 42
Sandalolitha 43
Sarcophyton 14
Scoly Corals 44
Scolymia
Seriatopora hystrix 45
Stichodactyla gigantea 25
Stylophora pistillata
Symphyllia radians 23
Spotted Jellyfish 46
Mastigias papua
Tubastraea 23
Agaricia 47
Manicina 44
Boulder Brain Coral 44
Colpophyllia natans
Giant Anemone 36
Condylactis gigantea
Diploria 23
Eunicea 48
Eusmilia 44
Muricea 19
mustard hill coral 49
Porites astreoides
Pseudoplexaura 23
massive starlet coral 44
Siderastrea siderea
Stephanocoenia 44
Anthelia 50
Corallimorphidae 51
Trachyphyllia geoffroyi
fire corals 44
Millepora
Seriatopora 38

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