Great Barrier Reef
From Microcosm Aquarium Explorer
Satellite view, courtesy NASA.
The Great Barrier Reef, in Australia's Coral Sea, is the largest structure on earth built by living organisms.
It is the largest complex of coral reefs and islands in the world, with some 2,900 distinct reefs, 900 islands, and a total length along the Queensland coast of 2,600 kilometres (1,600 mi).
It covers an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres (133,000 sq mi).
Organism groups in native range Great Barrier Reef:
- Bicolor Blenny
- Bicolor Parrotfish
- Blue Assessor
- Bluehead Fairy Wrasse
- Chocolate Surgeonfish
- Cooper's Anthias
- Crocea Clam
- Crosshatch Goby
- Dispar Anthias
- Falco's Hawkfish
- Fathead Anthias
- Filamented Flasher Wrasse
- Flame Hawkfish
- Foxface Rabbitfish
- Goldenstriped Butterflyfish
- Half-and-Half Chromis
- King Demoiselle
- Lightbanded Shrimp Goby
- Lined Fairy Wrasse
- Map Puffer
- Multibarred Angelfish
- Niger Triggerfish
- Oblique-lined Dottyback
- Orangespine Unicornfish
- Orangespotted Shrimp Goby
- Orangespotted Sleeper Goby
- Ornate Wrasse
- Pajama Cardinalfish
- Pastel Green Wrasse
- Pinktail Triggerfish
- Pinstriped Wrasse
- Rainford’s Goby
- Randall’s Shrimp Goby
- Red Cheek Anthias
- Redbanded Shrimp Goby
- Redbar Anthias
- Redspotted Sandperch
- Regal Angelfish
- Sailfin Dottyback
- Sailfin Tang
- Schauinsland’s Sand Perch
- Scimitar Triggerfish
- Scott’s Fairy Wrasse
- Speckled Grouper
- Talbot's Demoiselle
- Wheeler’s Shrimp Goby
- Whitecheek Surgeonfish
- Yellow Assessor
- Yellow Clown Goby
- Yellow Shrimp Goby
- … further results
