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| Blue shark searching drift kelp for food, open ocean. Image ID: 02288 Species: Blue shark, Prionace glauca Location: San Diego, California, USA | The bright orange garibaldi fish, California's state marine fish, is also clownlike in appearance. Image ID: 02416 Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus Location: California, USA | Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts. Image ID: 02435 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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| Two Florida manatees, or West Indian Manatees, swim together in the clear waters of Crystal River. Florida manatees are endangered. Image ID: 02628 Species: West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus Location: Three Sisters Springs, Crystal River, Florida, USA | Two Florida manatees, or West Indian Manatees, swim together in the clear waters of Crystal River. Florida manatees are endangered. Image ID: 02629 Species: West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus Location: Three Sisters Springs, Crystal River, Florida, USA | A Florida manatee, or West Indian Manatee, hovers in the clear waters of Crystal River. Image ID: 02653 Species: West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus Location: Three Sisters Springs, Crystal River, Florida, USA |
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| A Florida manatee, or West Indian Manatee, hovers in the clear waters of Crystal River. Image ID: 02654 Species: West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus Location: Three Sisters Springs, Crystal River, Florida, USA | Three Sisters Springs depicted in an underwater landscape with sand, clear water and trees. Image ID: 02673 Location: Three Sisters Springs, Crystal River, Florida, USA | Pacific harbor seal swims in the protected waters of Childrens Pool in La Jolla, California. This group of harbor seals, which has formed a breeding colony at a small but popular beach near San Diego, is at the center of considerable controversy. While harbor seals are protected from harassment by the Marine Mammal Protection Act and other legislation, local interests would like to see the seals leave so that people can resume using the beach. Image ID: 03018 Species: Pacific harbor seal, Phoca vitulina richardsi Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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| Ocean sunfish and freediving photographer, open ocean. Image ID: 03325 Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola Location: San Diego, California, USA | Ocean sunfish schooling, open ocean near San Diego. Image ID: 03562 Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola Location: San Diego, California, USA | North Pacific humpback whale, escort in competitive group makes fast close pass. Image ID: 06057 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA |
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| California sea lions, socializing/resting, Webster Point rookery, Santa Barbara Island, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. Image ID: 06284 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Ocean sunfish schooling near drift kelp, soliciting cleaner fishes, open ocean, Baja California. Image ID: 06304 Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola | Aggregating anemone opens its arms to passing ocean currents in an attempt to snag passing bits of food or unwary prey. Image ID: 00314 Species: Aggregating anemone, Anthopleura elegantissima Location: Laguna Beach, California, USA |
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| North Pacific Yellowtail brushing against blue shark. Image ID: 01000 Species: North Pacific Yellowtail, Seriola lalandi, Prionace glauca Location: San Diego, California, USA | Blue shark and offshore drift kelp. Image ID: 01078 Species: Blue shark, Prionace glauca, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Diego, California, USA | Blue shark underneath drift kelp, open ocean. Image ID: 01081 Species: Blue shark, Prionace glauca, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Mangrove snapper schooling in the clear waters of Crystal River, with trees in the background. Image ID: 02688 Species: Mangrove snapper, Lutjanus griseus Location: Three Sisters Springs, Crystal River, Florida, USA | Pacific manta ray with remora and Clarion angelfish. Image ID: 06238 Species: Giant manta ray, Manta birostris, Remora, Holacanthus clarionensis Location: San Benedicto Island (Islas Revillagigedos), Baja California, Mexico | A great white shark swims just below the rippled ocean surface of Isla Guadalupe, far offshore of the Pacific Coast of Baja California. Image ID: 07721 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico |
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| A great white shark swims through the clear waters of Isla Guadalupe, far offshore of the Pacific Coast of Baja California. Guadalupe Island is host to a concentration of large great white sharks, which visit the island to feed on pinnipeds and tuna. Image ID: 07668 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | A great white shark swims through the clear waters of Isla Guadalupe, far offshore of the Pacific Coast of Baja California. Guadalupe Island is host to a concentration of large great white sharks, which visit the island to feed on pinnipeds and tuna. Image ID: 07723 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | A great white shark underwater. A large great white shark cruises the clear oceanic waters of Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe). Image ID: 10110 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico |
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| California sea lion underwater. Image ID: 27423 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico | A great white shark swims through the clear waters of Isla Guadalupe, far offshore of the Pacific Coast of Mexico's Baja California. Guadalupe Island is host to a concentration of large great white sharks, which visit the island to feed on pinnipeds and use it as a staging area before journeying farther into the Pacific ocean. Image ID: 19454 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Great white shark, underwater. Image ID: 21361 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico |
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| California sea lions, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions. Image ID: 23422 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | California sea lions, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions. Image ID: 23429 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara 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: 25394 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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