Anilao, home to some of the world’s breathtaking underwater landscapes, is home to a diverse species of hard and soft corals. It is one of the 19 coastal barangays of the municipality of Mabini in Batangas. It sits at the mouth of Verde Island Passage, which scientists declared as the center of the shorefish biodiversity. More than the colorful corals of different shapes and sizes, Anilao is also home to amazing underwater critters such as rhinopias, harlequin shrimp, tiger shrimp, bumble bee shrimp, blue-ringed octopus, mimic octopus, hairy frogfish, bobbit worm, and boxer crab, and hundreds of nudibranch species.

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