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Parasitic zoanthid anemones cover and encrust and overwhelm a golden gorgonian, Catalina Head, Parazoanthus lucificum, Savalia lucifica, Catalina Island, California
Parasitic zoanthid anemones cover and encrust and overwhelm a golden gorgonian, Catalina Head, Parazoanthus lucificum, Savalia lucifica, Catalina Island, California
Red gorgonian Leptogorgia chilensis, Catalina Island, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis
Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest, Macrocystis pyrifera, Catalina Island, California
Brown gorgonian and California golden gorgonian on underwater rocky reef below kelp forest, Catalina Island. Gorgonians are 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, Muricea californica, Muricea fruticosa
Selfie, giant kelp forest, Catalina Island, Macrocystis pyrifera
Sheephead and invasive sargassum, Catalina, Sargassum horneri, Semicossyphus pulcher, Catalina Island
California sheephead and golden gorgonian, giant kelp forest filters sunlight in the background, underwater, Muricea californica, Semicossyphus pulcher, Catalina Island
California sheephead and golden gorgonian, giant kelp forest filters sunlight in the background, underwater, Muricea californica, Semicossyphus pulcher, Catalina Island
Juvenile sheephead and gorgonian, Catalina, Semicossyphus pulcher, Catalina Island
Juvenile sheephead swims above dead/dying brown gorgonian covered with yellow parasitic zoanthid anemones. Eagle Rock, Parazoanthus lucificum, Savalia lucifica, Semicossyphus pulcher, Catalina Island
Juvenile sheephead, Farnsworth Banks, Semicossyphus pulcher, Catalina Island
California sheephead, juvenile, Semicossyphus pulcher, Catalina Island
California sheephead, juvenile, Semicossyphus pulcher, Catalina Island
Juvenile sheephead swims above dead/dying brown gorgonian covered with yellow parasitic zoanthid anemones. Eagle Rock, Parazoanthus lucificum, Savalia lucifica, Semicossyphus pulcher, Catalina Island
Pacific torpedo ray, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina, Torpedo californica, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis, Semicossyphus pulcher, Catalina Island
Pacific torpedo ray, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina, Torpedo californica, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis, Semicossyphus pulcher, Catalina Island
Pacific torpedo ray, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina, Torpedo californica, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis, Semicossyphus pulcher, Catalina Island
Pacific torpedo ray, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina, Torpedo californica, Semicossyphus pulcher, Catalina Island
Pacific torpedo ray, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina, Torpedo californica, Semicossyphus pulcher, Catalina Island
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