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| Humpback whale lunge feeding on Antarctic krill, with mouth open and baleen visible. The humbpack's throat grooves are seen as its pleated throat becomes fully distended as the whale fills its mouth with krill and water. The water will be pushed out, while the baleen strains and retains the small krill. Image ID: 25648 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Gerlache Strait, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica | Brown pelicans feeding on krill. Image ID: 03171 Species: Brown pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico | Humpback whale lunge feeding on Antarctic krill, with mouth open and baleen visible. The humbpack's pink throat grooves are seen as its pleated throat becomes fully distended as the whale fills its mouth with krill and water. The water will be pushed out, while the baleen strains and retains the small krill. Image ID: 25660 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Gerlache Strait, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica |
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| A blue whale eating krill. This blue whale is seen feeding and surfacing amid krill with its throat fully engorged with krill and water. It will push the water back out with its tongue, trapping the krill in its baleen which acts like a filter. Aerial photo, Baja California. Image ID: 05837 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | Pelagic red tuna crab, open ocean. Image ID: 02247 Species: Pelagic red crab, Pleuroncodes planipes Location: San Diego, California, USA | Acorn barnacle feeding amidst strawberry anemones, Monterey Peninsula. Image ID: 07023 Species: Acorn barnacle, Megabalanus californicus, Corynactis californica Location: Monterey, California, USA |
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| Sally Lightfoot crab. Image ID: 01896 Species: Sally lightfoot crab, Grapsus grapsus Location: Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Red rock shrimp. Image ID: 08641 Species: Red Rock Shrimp, Lysmata californica | Cleaner shrimp. Image ID: 09467 Species: Cleaner shrimp, Lysmata amboinensis |
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| 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 | Krill. Likely Euphausia pacifica. A thin cloud of pink krill gathers at the ocean surface, where it is likely to be preyed upon by sharks, fish, birds and whales. Image ID: 27015 Location: San Diego, California, USA | Krill. A thin cloud of pink krill gathers at the ocean surface, where it is likely to be preyed upon by sharks, fish, birds and whales. Image ID: 27014 Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Krill. A thin cloud of pink krill gathers at the ocean surface, where it is likely to be preyed upon by sharks, fish, birds and whales. Likely Euphausia pacifica. Image ID: 27016 Location: San Diego, 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: 10219 Species: Northern kelp crab, Pugettia producta, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA | Spot prawn. Image ID: 12872 Species: Spot prawn, Pandalus platycaros |
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| Spot prawn. Image ID: 12873 Species: Spot prawn, Pandalus platycaros | Spot prawn. Image ID: 12874 Species: Spot prawn, Pandalus platycaros | Spot prawn. Image ID: 12875 Species: Spot prawn, Pandalus platycaros |
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| Spot prawn. Image ID: 12876 Species: Spot prawn, Pandalus platycaros | Hermit crab. Hermit crabs wear shells to protect their soft abdomens, which are asymmetrical and curved to fit the spiral shape of their shell. Like all crabs, hermit crabs are decapods; they have five pairs of legs, including a pair of claws. One claw is much larger than the other, the hermit crab uses it for defense and food shredding while it uses the smaller claw for eating. The second and third pairs of legs help the crab walk, and the last two pairs hold the hermit crab in its shell. Image ID: 13693 Species: Hermit crab, Pagurus | Sheep crab. Image ID: 13996 Species: Sheep crab, Loxorhynchus grandis |
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| Sheep crab. Image ID: 13997 Species: Sheep crab, Loxorhynchus grandis | Sheep crab. Image ID: 13998 Species: Sheep crab, Loxorhynchus grandis | Spot prawn. Image ID: 14012 Species: Spot prawn, Pandalus platycaros |
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| Ghost shrimp, seen in a cross section view of its habitat, an underwater hole. Image ID: 14019 Species: Ghost shrimp, Neotrypaea californiensis | Spot prawn. Image ID: 14952 Species: Spot prawn, Pandalus platycaros | Spot prawn atop scallop. Image ID: 14957 Species: Spot prawn, Pandalus platycaros, Crassedoma giganteum |
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| Sally lightfoot crab on volcanic rocks, Punta Albemarle. Image ID: 16601 Species: Sally lightfoot crab, Grapsus grapsus Location: Isabella Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Sally lightfoot crab on barnacles. Image ID: 16602 Species: Sally lightfoot crab, Grapsus grapsus Location: North Seymour Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Sally lightfoot crab on volcanic rocks, Punta Albemarle. Image ID: 16603 Species: Sally lightfoot crab, Grapsus grapsus Location: Isabella Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador |
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