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Kelp holdfast attaches the plant to the rocky reef on the oceans bottom. Kelp blades are visible above the holdfast, swaying in the current.
Image ID: 34212
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Golden gorgonian on underwater rocky reef, amid kelp forest, Catalina Island. 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.
Image ID: 34219
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Kelp holdfast attaches the plant to the rocky reef on the oceans bottom. Kelp blades are visible above the holdfast, swaying in the current.
Image ID: 34211
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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Kelp holdfast attaches the plant to the rocky reef on the oceans bottom. Kelp blades are visible above the holdfast, swaying in the current.
Image ID: 34213
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Golden gorgonian on underwater rocky reef, amid kelp forest, Catalina Island. 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.
Image ID: 34214
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Sunlight streams through giant kelp forest. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky reef to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest.
Image ID: 34215
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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Garibaldi and golden gorgonian, with a underwater forest of giant kelp rising in the background, underwater.
Image ID: 34216
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Golden gorgonian on underwater rocky reef, amid kelp forest, Catalina Island. 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.
Image ID: 34217
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Garibaldi and golden gorgonian, with a underwater forest of giant kelp rising in the background, underwater.
Image ID: 34218
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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Garibaldi and invasive Sargassum.
Image ID: 34220
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Garibaldi and invasive Sargassum.
Image ID: 34221
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Invasive Sargassum, Catalina.
Image ID: 34222
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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Garibaldi and invasive Sargassum.
Image ID: 34223
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Invasive Sargassum, Catalina.
Image ID: 34224
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Invasive Sargassum, Catalina.
Image ID: 34225
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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Invasive Sargassum, Catalina.
Image ID: 34226
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Sunlight streams through giant kelp forest. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky reef to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest.
Image ID: 34227
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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