by CORAL Magazine | Feb 21, 2019 | Marine, News & Notes
via SECORE International, Inc. Towabonga – coral reef ecology for kids! The new educational kids comic by awarded illustrator Bernhard Speh and SECORE International is published! Coral Heroes takes its readers on a lovingly drawn journey to the reefs of Towabonga,...
by CORAL Magazine | Feb 19, 2019 | Marine, News & Notes
via MASNA Meet Up at MACNA 2019! Meet your friends and make new ones! We want our MACNA attendees to have the best experience possible, and to do that we are offering our meeting space so that you can meet up with your friends! Are you a member of your local club and...
by James Lawrence | Feb 16, 2019 | Marine
As seen in the March/April 2019 Issue of CORAL Magazine, this coral belongs to a relatively obscure genus of Scleractinians. Can you name it? Hints: It is an Indo-Pacific genus. It is an encrusting, reefbuilding, brooding coral, producing planula larvae. It is seen in...
by Matt Pedersen | Feb 13, 2019 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine
Awash in spangles of red and blue on an olive green base coloration, and potentially exhibiting a sail-like first dorsal fin, the newest member of the Watchman/Shrimpgoby genus Cryptocentrus might just be what the marine fish breeder ordered. This exciting new...
by Matt Pedersen | Feb 8, 2019 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, CORAL Excerpt, Marine
Last week’s CORAL Newsletter teased a beautiful “little red Corvette” of a mystery fish, this stunning bottom-dweller from the intertidal zone, which is a fish few have likely seen or might recognize. We left out one important detail: the Red-Black...
by CORAL Magazine | Feb 8, 2019 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
“As oceans warm, coral reefs are suffering not only from bleaching but from deadly outbreaks of disease. Researchers are developing remedies, but the key question is whether these solutions can work on a large-enough scale to save vast reef systems from Florida...