{"id":344,"date":"2023-01-17T07:03:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T07:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/?page_id=344"},"modified":"2026-03-21T00:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T00:00:40","slug":"coral-id","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/lit-links\/id-docs\/coral-id\/","title":{"rendered":"Coral ID"},"content":{"rendered":"

DRAFTING…<\/em><\/p>\n

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Front & Back Covers of my well used (since 1980), ducktaped guide<\/p><\/div>\n

My GoTo Guide:
\nGuide to Corals and Fishes of Florida, the Bahamas and the Caribbean<\/strong>\u00a0by Daz & Jerry Greenberg, 1977 SeaHawk Press.Miami Florida “Take this book underwater when you dive or fish. The waterproof, tear-resistant pages contain descriptions and colour illustrations of 260 species of corals and fishes. Edible fish are identified.” Common and scientific names are given; index. View example coral page<\/a>; example fish page.\u00a0<\/a>‘Still available as a used book; and it can be viewed on the Web Archive.<\/a>
\nComment: Of course, depending on the use, such IDs may need to to be checked out for the current scientific name, also for similar species; iNaturalist can be a good place to start as it now has fairly good coverage of coral and fish species in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

Caribbean Marine Life ID <\/strong>Gallery: Corals<\/a>
\nOn snorkelstj.com (Snorkel St. John, USVI)
\n– Stony Corals <\/a>(Hard Skeleton)
\n– Octocorals<\/a> (Soft Skeleton)
\n– Cup and Tube Corals<\/a> (Hard Skeleton)
\n– Hydrocorals<\/a>-not true corals
\nThere are multiple high quality photos of each species<\/p>\n

Coralpedia<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>
\nUniversity of Warwick (U.K.) website by Professor Charles Sheppard. Photos and text description for each species. Comprehensive. About the Project<\/a><\/p>\n

Guide for the Identification of the Shallow Water Corals of the Wider Caribbean<\/strong><\/a> (PDF)
\nErnesto Weil and Hector Ruiz Department of Marine Sciences, University of Puerto Rico. 2003<\/p>\n

PICTURE GUIDE TO STONY CORALS OF GLOVERS REEF ATOLL<\/strong><\/a>
\nCreated for WCS by Dr. Tom Bright and Dr. Judy Lang, March 2013. 10 page PDF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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