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Home  >  Nature Photography Blog  >  Search  >  Categories  >  Animal  >  Marine Invertebrate  >  Coral   >    Bryozoan grows on a 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: 25395   Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis 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: 25393   Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA   Polyp of a strawberry anemone (club-tipped anemone, more correctly a corallimorph). Image ID: 01039   Species: Strawberry anemone, Corynactis californica Location: San Miguel 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   Red gorgonian polyps. The red gorgonian is a colonial organism composed of thousands of tiny polyps. Each polyp secretes calcium which accumulates to form the structure of the colony. The fan-shaped gorgonian is oriented perpendicular to prevailing ocean currents to better enable to filter-feeding polyps to capture passing plankton and detritus passing by. Image ID: 03480   Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis 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: 23420   Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA   California golden gorgonian and small juvenile sheephead fishes on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. 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: 23421   Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Semicossyphus pulcher 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: 23425   Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis 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: 23431   Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente 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   California golden gorgonian on rocky reef, underwater. 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: 25397   Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA   Brown gorgonians on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. Gorgonians are filter-feeding temperate colonial species that live 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: 25398   Species: Brown gorgonian, Muricea fruticosa 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: 25406   Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis 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: 25407   Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA   Brown gorgonians, Catalina. Image ID: 00567   Species: Brown gorgonian, Muricea fruticosa Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   Red gorgonian. Image ID: 00616   Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA   coralline algae reef. Image ID: 00729   Species: Coralline algae, Porolithon Location: Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary, American Samoa, USA   Pink coralline algae. Image ID: 00760   Species: Coralline algae, Porolithon Location: Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary, American Samoa, USA   Orange cup coral. Image ID: 01858   Species: Orange cup coral, Tubastrea coccinea Location: Isla Champion, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador   Polyp of a strawberry anemone (club-tipped anemone, more correctly a corallimorph). Image ID: 00597   Species: Strawberry anemone, Corynactis californica Location: Scripps Canyon, La Jolla, California, USA   Hydrocoral, San Benito Islands. Image ID: 01016   Species: Hydrocoral, Stylaster californicus, Allopora californica Location: San Benito Islands (Islas San Benito), Baja California, Mexico   Diver and red gorgonian. Image ID: 01485   Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA   Black coral. Image ID: 01867   Species: Black coral, Antipathidae Location: Isla Champion, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador   California Golden gorgonian, red gorgonian, sheephead. Image ID: 02533   Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Lophogorgia chilensis, Semicossyphus pulcher Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA   Simnia and egg cluster on gorgonian. Image ID: 02556   Species: Simnia, Delonovolva aequalis Location: Anacapa Island, California, USA   California Golden gorgonian polyps. The golden gorgonian is a colonial organism composed of thousands of tiny polyps. Each polyp secretes calcium which accumulates to form the structure of the colony. The fan-shaped gorgonian is oriented perpendicular to prevailing ocean currents to better enable to filter-feeding polyps to capture passing plankton and detritus passing by. Image ID: 03481   Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA   California Golden gorgonian in kelp forest. Image ID: 03486   Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA   Red gorgonian on rocky reef below kelp forest. Image ID: 03827   Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA   Hydrocoral, Farnsworth Banks. Image ID: 04704   Species: Hydrocoral, Stylaster californicus, Allopora californica Location: Catalina Island, California, USA   Red gorgonians. Image ID: 04747   Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA

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