1. A red-and-yellow necklace sea star clings to a sea fan in the Maldives.

2. Here, we report a localized bloom of the benthic filamentous cyanobacterium Moorea Bouillonii (formerly Lyngbya Bouillonii) observed exclusively on the gorgonian (sea fan) coral Annella reticulata at around 20 m depth in Japan.