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Bryozoan grows on a red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Coral Photo. Image ID: 25395 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Coral Picture. Image ID: 25393 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Polyp of a strawberry anemone (club-tipped anemone, more correctly a corallimorph). Stock Photography of Coral. Image ID: 01039 Species: Strawberry anemone, Corynactis californica Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA

Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Photograph of Coral. Image ID: 25394 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Red gorgonian polyps. The red gorgonian is a colonial organism composed of thousands of tiny polyps. Each polyp secretes calcium which accumulates to form the structure of the colony. The fan-shaped gorgonian is oriented perpendicular to prevailing ocean currents to better enable to filter-feeding polyps to capture passing plankton and detritus passing by. Coral Photos. Image ID: 03480 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Coral Image. Image ID: 23420 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA

California golden gorgonian and small juvenile sheephead fishes on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The golden gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Each individual polyp is a distinct animal, together they secrete calcium that forms the structure of the colony. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Professional stock photos of Coral. Image ID: 23421 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Semicossyphus pulcher Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Pictures of Coral. Image ID: 23425 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Coral Photo. Image ID: 23431 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA

Garibaldi and golden gorgonian, with a underwater forest of giant kelp rising in the background, underwater. Coral Picture. Image ID: 23432 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Hypsypops rubicundus Location: Catalina Island, California, USA	California golden gorgonian on rocky reef, underwater. The golden gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Each individual polyp is a distinct animal, together they secrete calcium that forms the structure of the colony. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Stock Photography of Coral. Image ID: 25397 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Brown gorgonians on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. Gorgonians are filter-feeding temperate colonial species that live on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Each individual polyp is a distinct animal, together they secrete calcium that forms the structure of the colony. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by Photograph of Coral. Image ID: 25398 Species: Brown gorgonian, Muricea fruticosa Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA

Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Coral Photos. Image ID: 25406 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Coral Image. Image ID: 25407 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Brown gorgonians, Catalina. Professional stock photos of Coral. Image ID: 00567 Species: Brown gorgonian, Muricea fruticosa Location: Catalina Island, California, USA

Red gorgonian. Pictures of Coral. Image ID: 00616 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	coralline algae reef. Coral Photo. Image ID: 00729 Species: Coralline algae, Porolithon Location: Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary, American Samoa, USA	Pink coralline algae. Coral Picture. Image ID: 00760 Species: Coralline algae, Porolithon Location: Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary, American Samoa, USA

Orange cup coral. Stock Photography of Coral. Image ID: 01858 Species: Orange cup coral, Tubastrea coccinea Location: Isla Champion, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador	Polyp of a strawberry anemone (club-tipped anemone, more correctly a corallimorph). Photograph of Coral. Image ID: 00597 Species: Strawberry anemone, Corynactis californica Location: Scripps Canyon, La Jolla, California, USA	Paul W. Gabrielson, Ph.D., collecting algae and coral samples. Coral Photos. Image ID: 00824 Location: Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary, American Samoa, USA

Hydrocoral, San Benito Islands. Coral Image. Image ID: 01016 Species: Hydrocoral, Stylaster californicus, Allopora californica Location: San Benito Islands (Islas San Benito), Baja California, Mexico	Nudibranch on calcareous coralline algae. Professional stock photos of Coral. Image ID: 01064 Species: Opalescent nudibranch, Hermissenda crassicornis Location: Monterey, California, USA	Diver and red gorgonian. Pictures of Coral. Image ID: 01485 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA

Black coral. Coral Photo. Image ID: 01867 Species: Black coral, Antipathidae Location: Isla Champion, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador	Coral hawkfish. Coral Picture. Image ID: 02432 Species: Coral hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus Location: Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador	California Golden gorgonian, red gorgonian, sheephead. Stock Photography of Coral. Image ID: 02533 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Lophogorgia chilensis, Semicossyphus pulcher Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA

Simnia and egg cluster on gorgonian. Photograph of Coral. Image ID: 02556 Species: Simnia, Delonovolva aequalis Location: Anacapa Island, California, USA	California Golden gorgonian polyps. The golden gorgonian is a colonial organism composed of thousands of tiny polyps. Each polyp secretes calcium which accumulates to form the structure of the colony. The fan-shaped gorgonian is oriented perpendicular to prevailing ocean currents to better enable to filter-feeding polyps to capture passing plankton and detritus passing by. Coral Photos. Image ID: 03481 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	California Golden gorgonian in kelp forest. Coral Image. Image ID: 03486 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA