Raja Ampat's biodiversity is the richest in the world and 75% of all known coral species can be found there.

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Gorgonian Coral

Identification of sea slugs are often difficult. The keys to identification in this case is the broken purple rigde together with the placement of the three mantle lobes on both sides of the body. One lobe on either side of the head, one on the side of the gills, and one between those two.

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Purple-Edged Ceratosoma

The blue-ringed octopus flashes its 50-60 rings within a third of a second as a warning display to predators. Being one of the world's most venomous marine animals, its poison causes total body paralysis—also to humans.