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California golden gorgonian, Garibaldi and Sheephead wrasse 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: 30922
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Garibaldi, California golden gorgonian, Semicossyphus pulcher, Hypsypops rubicundus, Muricea californica
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 | 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 |
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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: 30903
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Sheephead and invasive sargassum, Catalina.
Image ID: 30974
Species: Sheephead wrasse, Sargassum, Semicossyphus pulcher, Sargassum horneri
Location: Catalina 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 |
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California sheephead and golden gorgonian, giant kelp forest filters sunlight in the background, underwater.
Image ID: 23472
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher, Muricea californica
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | California golden gorgonian and Sheephead wrasse 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: 30888
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Juvenile sheephead and gorgonian, Catalina.
Image ID: 30975
Species: Sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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Sheephead and golden gorgonian, underwater in a kelp forest.
Image ID: 23528
Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Gorgonians grow on rocky reef, kelp forest and a white boat floating on the surface can be seen in the background, underwater.
Image ID: 23537
Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Sheephead and golden gorgonian, underwater in a kelp forest.
Image ID: 23586
Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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California golden gorgonian and small juvenile sheephead wrasse 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: 30924
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Juvenile sheephead wrasse.
Image ID: 14001
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher | Sheephead wrasse, female.
Image ID: 14036
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher |
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Juvenile sheephead wrasse.
Image ID: 14944
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher | California sheephead, adult male.
Image ID: 01936
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Juvenile sheephead, Farnsworth Banks.
Image ID: 05184
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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California sheephead, juvenile.
Image ID: 00371
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | California sheephead, gorgonian.
Image ID: 01124
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | California sheephead, juvenile.
Image ID: 01935
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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Red gorgonian, sheephead.
Image ID: 02537
Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | California sheephead and gorgonian amid kelp forest.
Image ID: 04647
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Juvenile sheephead swims above dead/dying brown gorgonian covered with yellow parasitic zoanthid anemones.
Image ID: 07006
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher, Parazoanthus lucificum
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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Juvenile sheephead swims above dead/dying brown gorgonian covered with yellow parasitic zoanthid anemones.
Image ID: 07007
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher, Parazoanthus lucificum
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | California sheephead, adult male.
Image ID: 07072
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | California sheephead, male.
Image ID: 01125
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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California sheephead, female.
Image ID: 01937
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Sheephead and sponges, Bens Rock.
Image ID: 02379
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher | California sheephead, gorgonian.
Image ID: 03456
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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