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Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts.
Image ID: 00627
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts.
Image ID: 02435
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest. Giant kelp can grow up to 2' in a single day given optimal conditions. Epic submarine forests of kelp grow throughout California's Southern Channel Islands.
Image ID: 25396
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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Bubble ring.
Image ID: 06998 | Giant kelp, blades, stipes and pneumatocysts, backlit by the sun in shallow water.
Image ID: 25401
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest. Giant kelp can grow up to 2' in a single day given optimal conditions. Epic submarine forests of kelp grow throughout California's Southern Channel Islands.
Image ID: 23424
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest. Giant kelp can grow up to 2' in a single day given optimal conditions. Epic submarine forests of kelp grow throughout California's Southern Channel Islands.
Image ID: 23430
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Underwater bubble ring, a stable toroidal pocket of air.
Image ID: 25282 | Underwater bubble ring, a stable toroidal pocket of air.
Image ID: 25285 |
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Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest. Giant kelp can grow up to 2' in a single day given optimal conditions. Epic submarine forests of kelp grow throughout California's Southern Channel Islands.
Image ID: 25399
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest. Giant kelp can grow up to 2' in a single day given optimal conditions. Epic submarine forests of kelp grow throughout California's Southern Channel Islands.
Image ID: 25403
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest. Giant kelp can grow up to 2' in a single day given optimal conditions. Epic submarine forests of kelp grow throughout California's Southern Channel Islands.
Image ID: 25412
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts.
Image ID: 00617
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts.
Image ID: 00628
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp fronds.
Image ID: 01273
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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Kelp plants growing toward surface and spreading to form a canopy.
Image ID: 01293
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp fronds and forest.
Image ID: 01497
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp fronds.
Image ID: 01498
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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Kelp detail, San Diego.
Image ID: 02125
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: California, USA | Kelp detail showing pneumatocysts (air bladders) attached to stipe, San Diego.
Image ID: 02126
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: California, USA | Kelp spread over ocean surface to form a canopy.
Image ID: 02129
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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Kelp frond in motion, time exposure.
Image ID: 02344
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Guadalupe fur seal, bubbles emitted by dense fur coat.
Image ID: 02366
Species: Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts.
Image ID: 02436
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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Kelp detail showing pneumatocysts (air bladders).
Image ID: 02497
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp stipe and blades.
Image ID: 02498
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Kelp detail showing pneumatocysts (air bladders).
Image ID: 03051
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts (air bladders).
Image ID: 03405
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts (air bladders).
Image ID: 03406
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts (air bladders).
Image ID: 03412
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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