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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	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

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	Red gorgonians. Image ID: 04747 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Trumpetfish camouflages itself among the branches of a gorgonian coral (also known as sea rods). Image ID: 05210 Species: Trumpetfish (Atlantic), Aulostomus maculatus, Plexaurella Location: Bahamas

Purple sea fan. Image ID: 05358 Species: Purple sea fan, Gorgonia ventalina Location: Bahamas	Red gorgonian, polyp detail. Image ID: 07005 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	California Golden gorgonian in kelp forest. Image ID: 01280 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA

Red gorgonian. Image ID: 05333 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Black coral and diver. Image ID: 05706 Species: Black coral, Antipathidae Location: Isla Champion, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador	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