Translucent Goby, Indonesia, 1999

"The island nations of the tropical western Pacific cradle the richest coral life on our planet. These submarine archipelagoes are bathed in the warmest of waters, and the designs of life are fashioned like tapestries. Small creatures consort with great ones, as does this inch-long [2.5-centimeter-long] translucent goby that lives and feeds on the mantle of a giant clam."

—From "Coral Eden," January 1999, National Geographic magazine