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| Acorn barnacle feeding amidst strawberry anemones, Monterey Peninsula. Image ID: 07023 Species: Acorn barnacle, Megabalanus californicus, Corynactis californica Location: Monterey, California, USA | Strawberry anemone (club-tipped anemone, more correctly a corallimorph). Image ID: 00578 Species: Strawberry anemone, Corynactis californica Location: Scripps Canyon, La Jolla, California, USA | Chestnut cowrie with mantle extended. Image ID: 01035 Species: Chestnut Cowrie, Date Cowrie, Cypraea spadicea Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA |
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| California Golden gorgonian in kelp forest. Image ID: 01280 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Sally Lightfoot crab. Image ID: 01896 Species: Sally lightfoot crab, Grapsus grapsus Location: Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Anemone mouth. Image ID: 02484 Species: Aggregating anemone, Anthopleura elegantissima Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA |
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| Strawberry anemones (club-tipped anemones, more correctly corallimorphs). Image ID: 02487 Species: Strawberry anemone, Corynactis californica Location: Scripps Canyon, La Jolla, California, USA | Orange cup coral. Image ID: 02559 Species: Orange cup coral, Balanophyllia elegans Location: Monterey, California, USA | Red gorgonian. Image ID: 05333 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Black coral and diver. Image ID: 05706 Species: Black coral, Antipathidae Location: Isla Champion, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Red rock shrimp. Image ID: 08641 Species: Red Rock Shrimp, Lysmata californica | Sea nettles. Image ID: 08961 Species: Sea nettles, Chrysaora fuscescens |
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| Purple-striped jelly. Image ID: 08971 Species: Purple-striped jellyfish, Chrysaora colorata | Green abalone with mantle fringe visible extending outside shell. Image ID: 09242 Species: Green abalone, Haliotis fulgens | Cleaner shrimp. Image ID: 09467 Species: Cleaner shrimp, Lysmata amboinensis |
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| A cluster of vibrantly-colored strawberry anemones (club-tipped anemone, more correctly a corallimorph) polyps clings to the rocky reef. Image ID: 10163 Species: Strawberry anemone, Corynactis californica Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | A cluster of vibrantly-colored strawberry anemones (club-tipped anemone, more correctly a corallimorph) polyps clings to the rocky reef. Image ID: 10168 Species: Strawberry anemone, Corynactis californica Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Northern kelp crab crawls amidst kelp blades and stipes, midway in the water column (below the surface, above the ocean bottom) in a giant kelp forest. Image ID: 10218 Species: Northern kelp crab, Pugettia producta, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA |
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| Mastigia sp. jellyfish, found in Micronesia. Image ID: 10313 Species: Mastigia | A kelp forest. Giant kelp grows rapidly, up to 2' per day, from the rocky reef on the ocean bottom to which it is anchored, toward the ocean surface where it spreads to form a thick canopy. Myriad species of fishes, mammals and invertebrates form a rich community in the kelp forest. Lush forests of kelp are found through California's Southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 23455 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera 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. Image ID: 25404 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Freediver photographing pelagic gelatinous zooplankton, adrift in the open ocean. Image ID: 26818 Species: Salp, Cyclosalpa affinis Location: San Diego, California, USA | Pelagic tunicate reproduction, large single salp produces a chain of smaller salps as it reproduces while adrift on the open ocean. Image ID: 26820 Species: Salp, Cyclosalpa affinis Location: San Diego, California, USA | Pelagic tunicate reproduction, large single salp produces a chain of smaller salps as it reproduces while adrift on the open ocean. Image ID: 26821 Species: Salp, Cyclosalpa affinis Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Colonial planktonic pelagic tunicate, adrift in the open ocean, forms rings and chains as it drifts with ocean currents. Image ID: 26822 Species: Salp, Cyclosalpa affinis Location: San Diego, California, USA | Colonial planktonic pelagic tunicate, adrift in the open ocean, forms rings and chains as it drifts with ocean currents. Image ID: 26824 Species: Salp, Cyclosalpa affinis Location: San Diego, California, USA | A view of an underwater forest of giant kelp. Giant kelp grows rapidly, up to 2' per day, from the rocky reef on the ocean bottom to which it is anchored, toward the ocean surface where it spreads to form a thick canopy. Myriad species of fishes, mammals and invertebrates form a rich community in the kelp forest. Lush forests of kelp are found through California's Southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 25402 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Reef with gorgonians and marine invertebrates, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico. Image ID: 27504 Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico | A kelp forest. Giant kelp grows rapidly, up to 2' per day, from the rocky reef on the ocean bottom to which it is anchored, toward the ocean surface where it spreads to form a thick canopy. Myriad species of fishes, mammals and invertebrates form a rich community in the kelp forest. Lush forests of kelp are found through California's Southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 23435 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | A kelp forest. Giant kelp grows rapidly, up to 2' per day, from the rocky reef on the ocean bottom to which it is anchored, toward the ocean surface where it spreads to form a thick canopy. Myriad species of fishes, mammals and invertebrates form a rich community in the kelp forest. Lush forests of kelp are found through California's Southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 23446 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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