Fungia feeding. Fungia are large individual corals that
don't form colonies or reefs. Their large and very expandable
mouths allow them to eat large pieces of food compared to
most corals. The movie was captured with epifluorescence, using
the Fungia's own natural auto-fluorescence stimulated by UV,
blue and green excitation light. James Nicholson, Coral Culture &
Collaborative Research Facility, NOAA NOS NCCOS Center for
Coastal Environmental Health & Biomolecular Research, Fort
Johnson Marine Lab, Charleston, SC, USA. Honorable Mention,
2009 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.
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