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| Anemone mouth. Image ID: 02484 Species: Aggregating anemone, Anthopleura elegantissima Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA | Strawberry anemones (club-tipped anemones, more correctly corallimorphs). Image ID: 02487 Species: Strawberry anemone, Corynactis californica Location: Scripps Canyon, La Jolla, California, USA | Orange cup coral. Image ID: 02559 Species: Orange cup coral, Balanophyllia elegans Location: Monterey, California, USA |
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| 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 rock shrimp. Image ID: 08641 Species: Red Rock Shrimp, Lysmata californica |
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| Sea nettles. Image ID: 08961 Species: Sea nettles, Chrysaora fuscescens | Purple-striped jelly. Image ID: 08971 Species: Purple-striped jellyfish, Chrysaora colorata | Green abalone with mantle fringe visible extending outside shell. Image ID: 09242 Species: Green abalone, Haliotis fulgens |
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| Cleaner shrimp. Image ID: 09467 Species: Cleaner shrimp, Lysmata amboinensis | A cluster of vibrantly-colored strawberry anemones (club-tipped anemone, more correctly a corallimorph) polyps clings to the rocky reef. Image ID: 10163 Species: Strawberry anemone, Corynactis californica Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | A cluster of vibrantly-colored strawberry anemones (club-tipped anemone, more correctly a corallimorph) polyps clings to the rocky reef. Image ID: 10168 Species: Strawberry anemone, Corynactis californica Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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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 | Mastigia sp. jellyfish, found in Micronesia. Image ID: 10313 Species: Mastigia | 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 |
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| Freediver photographing pelagic gelatinous zooplankton, adrift in the open ocean. Image ID: 26818 Species: Salp, Cyclosalpa affinis Location: San Diego, California, USA | Pelagic tunicate reproduction, large single salp produces a chain of smaller salps as it reproduces while adrift on the open ocean. Image ID: 26820 Species: Salp, Cyclosalpa affinis Location: San Diego, California, USA | Pelagic tunicate reproduction, large single salp produces a chain of smaller salps as it reproduces while adrift on the open ocean. Image ID: 26821 Species: Salp, Cyclosalpa affinis Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Colonial planktonic pelagic tunicate, adrift in the open ocean, forms rings and chains as it drifts with ocean currents. Image ID: 26822 Species: Salp, Cyclosalpa affinis Location: San Diego, California, USA | Colonial planktonic pelagic tunicate, adrift in the open ocean, forms rings and chains as it drifts with ocean currents. Image ID: 26824 Species: Salp, Cyclosalpa affinis Location: San Diego, California, USA | Tube anemone. Image ID: 02480 Species: Tube anemone, Pachycerianthus fimbriatus Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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| Visitors enjoy viewing sea nettle jellyfish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Image ID: 21539 Species: Sea nettles, Chrysaora fuscescens Location: Monterey, California, USA | California golden gorgonian 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: 23439 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Garibaldi and California golden gorgonians 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: 23443 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Hypsypops rubicundus Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| California golden gorgonian 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: 23445 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | California sheephead and golden gorgonian, giant kelp forest filters sunlight in the background, underwater. Image ID: 23449 Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher, Muricea californica Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian (left) and California golden gorgonian (right) 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: 23452 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Colonial planktonic pelagic tunicate, adrift in the open ocean, forms rings and chains as it drifts with ocean currents. Image ID: 26825 Species: Salp, Cyclosalpa affinis Location: San Diego, California, USA | Colonial planktonic pelagic tunicate, adrift in the open ocean, forms rings and chains as it drifts with ocean currents. Image ID: 26826 Species: Salp, Cyclosalpa affinis Location: San Diego, California, USA | Colonial planktonic pelagic tunicate, adrift in the open ocean, forms rings and chains as it drifts with ocean currents. Image ID: 26827 Species: Salp, Cyclosalpa affinis Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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