300 fish species in TARP

Whilst I've been travelling over the last week, I've been updating my draft fish species checklist for TARP and as of today, it stands at 300 species. The details can be found in my other blog. None-the-less, life other than fish exists in TARP: taken on 27th October 2007 on the southeast slope of Gaya Island, the picture here is of a hard coral in the family EUPHYLLIDAE (species Euphyllia ancora if I'm not mistaken). This type of hard coral is only hard in its base: the fleshy polyps stay constantly exposed.