Shoulderblade Coral - Pavona clavus
I wanted to introduce this beautiful coral species with a picture of my husband Mark filming small critters living in this massive colony. I have seen an article mentioning this very same coral boulder and the writer - Nicole Helgason- estimates its age in 600 to 800 years old! This is in the dive site Kelapa 21 of Weda, Halmahera. In the dive site Gorangos there are even bigger colonies. The beauty of this one is its almost perfectly sphaerical shape when photographed from above with a wide angle lens. And I am happy to say that this coral is for the moment not in the least of threatened species (which does not mean we should not worry about its future well-being). It hope it will still be there long after we are all gone. By the way, this is the article:
https://reefdivers.io/protecting-elders-pavona-clavus/7979
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