759-15162 - Coral reef with Leather coral, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia

759-13360 - Giant Moray, Gymnothorax javanicus, Christmas Island, Australia

759-13044 - Bleached Corals on Reef Top, Felidhu Atoll, Maldives

759-12827 - Corals growing near Mangroves, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia

759-12809 - Coral Reef of Leather Corals, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia

759-12797 - Mosaic Fusiliers over Coral Reef, Pterocaesio tesselata, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia

759-12796 - Coral Reef of Leather Corals, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia

759-12795 - Coral Reef of Leather Corals, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia

759-12761 - Corals growing near Mangroves, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia

759-12083 - Leather Coral on Reef Top, Sinularia sp., Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands

759-12082 - Leather Coral on Reef Top, Sinularia sp., Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands

759-11878 - Whitleys Slender Basslet between Mushroom Leather Corals, Luzonichthys whitleyi, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

759-11879 - Whitleys Slender Basslet between Mushroom Leather Corals, Luzonichthys whitleyi, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

759-11468 - Reef of Hard Corals and Leather Corals, Acropora, Tanimbar Islands, Moluccas, Indonesia

759-12615 - Volcanic Gas Bubbles in Coral Reef, Ambon, Moluccas, Indonesia

832-394110 - Young leather coral (Sarcophyton) on sandy bottom, Red Sea, Aqaba, Jordan, Asia

832-393792 - Diver looking at leather coral (Sarcophyton elegans), Pacific Ocean, Flores, Indonesia, Asia

1350-3550 - Split shot or over under of a shallow reef with a variety of table, leather, and staghorn corals, Acropora sp., Porites sp., Litophyton sp., sarcophyton sp., and the island of Bunaken, Bunaken Marine Park, Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean

1350-3580 - Anthias, Pseudanthias sp., swim over a hard coral garden with a variety of different hard corals including table, branching, cabbage or lettuce, staghorn, and leather varieties, Acropora sp., Porites sp., Echinopora sp., Sarcophyton sp., Spice Islands, Maluku Region, Halmahera, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean

832-389404 - Soft coral, leather coral (Lobophytum) with semi-enclosed polyps, detail, Pacific, Great Barrier Reef, UNESCO World Heritage, Australia, Oceania

1116-37838 - Solomon Islands, serpent sea star on leather coral, close-up detail A90E

1012-137 - Leather Coral Polyps (Sarcophyton sp) each extending its 8 arms to try catching plankton in water. Coral Polyps are individual animals having a common base (in this case, the leathery base). Derawan, Kalimantan, Indonesia.

1012-66 - Leather Bass, Artificial Reef & diver. Mabul Island, Malaysia

1067-59 - Soft leather coral, Sarcophyton sp., bleaching. This soft coral has lost its symbiotic algae, zooxanthellae, and turned white due to high water temperatures. Buyat Bay, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean.

1067-17 - Coral reef of soft leather corals (Sarcophyton sp.) and limestone islands. Misool, Raja Ampat, Papua, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean. More info: This region has the highest marine biological diversity in the world.

920-2397 - Leather coral (Sarcophytum sp.), polyp detail, Namu atoll, Marshall Islands, Pacific

920-2419 - Leather coral (Sarcophyton sp.), Apo Island marine reserve, Philippines, Visayan sea, Southeast Asia, Asia

832-10310 - Whitemouth Moray (Gymnothorax meleagris) looking out of hole in Leather coral (Lobophytum sp.), Gangga Island, Bangka Islands, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, Molucca Sea, Pacific Ocean, Asia