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Kelp fronds.
Image ID: 03423
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp forest.
Image ID: 03425
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp forest.
Image ID: 04660
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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Kelp forest.
Image ID: 06092
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp fronds reach the surface and spread out to form a canopy.
Image ID: 06098
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Garibaldi swimming over surfgrass in kelp forest.
Image ID: 06274
Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus, Phyllospadix, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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Diver amidst kelp forest.
Image ID: 19918
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp forest.
Image ID: 19919
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp fronds, showing pneumatocysts (gas bladders).
Image ID: 19920
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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Kelp fronds backlit by the sun.
Image ID: 19921
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp forest.
Image ID: 19922
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp forest.
Image ID: 19924
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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Diver in kelp.
Image ID: 00274
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Pacific torpedo ray in kelp forest, filming lights.
Image ID: 01009
Species: Pacific torpedo ray, Torpedo californica, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: Santa Rosa Island, California, USA | Diver in kelp forest.
Image ID: 01104
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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Giant kelpfish amidst kelp.
Image ID: 01291
Species: Giant kelpfish, Heterostichus rostratus, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Jack mackerel and kelp.
Image ID: 01499
Species: Pacific jack mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp forest.
Image ID: 02412
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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Garibaldi and kelp forest.
Image ID: 02509
Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus, Macrocystis pyrifera
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 |
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Kelp forest.
Image ID: 04661
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Zebra perch amid kelp forest, Islas San Benito.
Image ID: 06200
Species: Zebra perch, Hermosilla azurea, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Benito Islands (Islas San Benito), Baja California, Mexico | California Golden gorgonian in kelp forest.
Image ID: 01280
Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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Kelp fronds grow upward from the reef below to reach the ocean surface and spread out to form a living canopy.
Image ID: 07490
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, 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: 10218
Species: Northern kelp crab, Pugettia producta, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA | Kelp fronds showing pneumatocysts, bouyant gas-filled bubble-like structures which float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface, where it will spread to form a roof-like canopy. Santa Barbara Island.
Image ID: 10228
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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A garibaldi fish (orange), surf grass (green) and palm kelp (brown) on the rocky reef -- all appearing blurred in this time exposure -- are tossed back and forth by powerful ocean waves passing by above. San Clemente Island.
Image ID: 10238
Species: Surfgrass, Phyllospadix, Hypsypops rubicundus
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | A parent and child admire the fascinating kelp forest tank at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, California.
Image ID: 10308
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera | Diver amidst kelp forest.
Image ID: 19925
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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