70195504 - Animal, Animals, Beach, Beaches, Color, Colour, Daytime, Echinoderm, Echinodermata, Echinoderms, Exterior, Fauna, Invertebrate, Invertebrates, Marine life, Motion, Movement, Moving, Nature, One, One animal, Outdoor, Outdoors, Outside, Reflection, Reflecti13776739 - This Yellow spotted guard crab (Trapezia flavopunctat) is pinching the tube feet of a crown-of-thorns seastar (Acanthaster planci) in defense of its antler coral (Pocillopora eydouxi) home. It will not stop until it has driven away the intruder who will move on to a meal that is not so well defended; Hawaii, United States of America13776366 - A triton's trumpet shell (Charonia tritonis) attacks a cushion starfish (Culcita novaeguineae). It will first drill into the seastar, vacuum the interior and then finally engulf the outer portion; Hawaii, United States of America13776735 - The white spotted sea cucumber (Actinopyga mauritiana) reaches about 8 inches in length; Hawaii, United States of America13778373 - Surrounded by patches of Rice Coral (Montipora capitata), a Red Slate Pencil Urchin (Heterocentrotus mamillatus) and a Needle-spined (Urchin Echinostrephus aciculatus) rest on Molokini Backwall which is located offshore of Maui, Hawaii, USA; Molokini Crater, Maui, Hawaii, United States of America
