Catalina Island photos

Categories  >  Location  >  USA  >  California  >  Catalina Island   >    California reef covered with purple hydrocoral (Stylaster californicus, Allopora californica). Image ID: 37177   Species: Hydrocoral, Stylaster californicus, Allopora californica Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   Giant black sea bass, endangered species, reaching up to 8' in length and 500 lbs, amid giant kelp forest. Image ID: 33354   Species: Giant Black Sea Bass, Stereolepis gigas 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: 33433   Species: Giant Kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   Garibaldi and golden gorgonian, with a underwater forest of giant kelp rising in the background, underwater. Image ID: 23432   Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Hypsypops rubicundus Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   Aerial photo of the West End of Catalina Island. Image ID: 25978   Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   California reef covered with purple hydrocoral (Stylaster californicus, Allopora californica). Image ID: 37184   Species: Hydrocoral, Stylaster californicus, Allopora californica Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   Garibaldi swims in the kelp forest, sunlight filters through towering giant kelp plants rising from the ocean bottom to the surface, underwater. Image ID: 23419   Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   California reef covered with purple hydrocoral (Stylaster californicus, Allopora californica) and palm kelp, with orange garibaldi fish whizzing by, Catalina Island. Image ID: 37175   Species: Hydrocoral, Stylaster californicus, Allopora californica Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   Giant black sea bass, gathering in a mating - courtship aggregation amid kelp forest, Catalina Island. Image ID: 33355   Species: Giant Black Sea Bass, Stereolepis gigas Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   Giant black sea bass, endangered species, reaching up to 8' in length and 500 lbs, amid giant kelp forest. Image ID: 33356   Species: Giant Black Sea Bass, Stereolepis gigas 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: 33434   Species: Giant Kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera 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: 33435   Species: Giant Kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera 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: 33436   Species: Giant Kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera 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: 33437   Species: Giant Kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera 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: 33438   Species: Giant Kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   Garibaldi and Brown Gorgonian Muricea fruticosa, Catalina Island. Image ID: 37157   Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   Pyrosome drifting through a kelp forest, Catalina Island. Pyrosomes are free-floating colonial tunicates that usually live in the upper layers of the open ocean in warm seas. Pyrosomes are cylindrical or cone-shaped colonies made up of hundreds to thousands of individuals, known as zooids. Image ID: 37166   Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   Red gorgonian (Lophogorgia chilensis) rises above fields of purple hydrocoral (Stylaster californicus, Allopora californica) on Farnsworth Bank, Catalina Island. Image ID: 37179   Species: Hydrocoral, Stylaster californicus, Allopora californica Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   Salema schooling amid kelp forest. Image ID: 01022   Species: Salema, Xenistius californiensis, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   Juvenile garibaldi in motion. Image ID: 02343   Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   Hydrocoral, Farnsworth Banks. Image ID: 04704   Species: Hydrocoral, Stylaster californicus, Allopora californica Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   Garibaldi maintains a patch of algae (just in front of the fish) to entice a female to lay a clutch of eggs. Image ID: 37144     Red gorgonian (Lophogorgia chilensis) on Farnsworth Banks reef. Image ID: 37181   Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts, giant kelp forest, Catalina Island. Image ID: 37193   Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts, giant kelp forest, Catalina Island. Image ID: 37199   Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   Giant black sea bass, gathering in a mating - courtship aggregation amid kelp forest, Catalina Island. Image ID: 33357   Species: Giant Black Sea Bass, Stereolepis gigas Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   Giant black sea bass, endangered species, reaching up to 8' in length and 500 lbs, amid giant kelp forest. Image ID: 33358   Species: Giant Black Sea Bass, Stereolepis gigas Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   Giant black sea bass, gathering in a mating - courtship aggregation amid kelp forest, Catalina Island. Image ID: 33359   Species: Giant Black Sea Bass, Stereolepis gigas Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   Giant black sea bass, gathering in a mating - courtship aggregation amid kelp forest, Catalina Island. Image ID: 33360   Species: Giant Black Sea Bass, Stereolepis gigas Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   Giant black sea bass, gathering in a mating - courtship aggregation amid kelp forest, Catalina Island. Image ID: 33361   Species: Giant Black Sea Bass, Stereolepis gigas Location: Catalina Island, California, USA

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Updated: September 26, 2021