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| Parasitic zoanthid anemones cover and encrust and overwhelm a golden gorgonian, Catalina Head. Image ID: 37293 Species: Luminescent parazoanthid, Zoanthid anemone, Parazoanthus lucificum, Savalia lucifica Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Parasitic zoanthid anemones cover and encrust and overwhelm a golden gorgonian, Catalina Head. Image ID: 37294 Species: Luminescent parazoanthid, Zoanthid anemone, Parazoanthus lucificum, Savalia lucifica Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian Leptogorgia chilensis, Catalina Island. Image ID: 37295 Species: Red gorgonian, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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| Selfie, giant kelp forest, Catalina Island. Image ID: 37296 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest. Image ID: 37297 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Giant Kelp Forest, West End Catalina Island. Image ID: 37300 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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| Giant Kelp Forest, West End Catalina Island. Image ID: 37301 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Brown gorgonian and California golden gorgonian on underwater rocky reef below kelp forest, Catalina Island. Gorgonians are 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: 37292 Species: Brown gorgonian, California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Muricea fruticosa 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: 37298 Species: Giant kelp, California golden gorgonian, Macrocystis pyrifera, Muricea californica Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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| 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: 37299 Species: Giant kelp, California golden gorgonian, Macrocystis pyrifera, Muricea californica Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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