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| California sea lions, socializing/resting, Webster Point rookery, Santa Barbara Island, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. Image ID: 06290 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Chestnut cowry, mantle exposed. Image ID: 00624 Species: Chestnut Cowrie, Date Cowrie, Cypraea spadicea Location: San Miguel 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 |
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| Hedgehog hydroid cluster. Image ID: 01036 Species: Hedgehog hydroid, Hydractinia milleri Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA | Feather duster worm. Image ID: 01054 Species: Feather duster worm, Eudistylia polymorpha Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA | Chestnut cowrie with mantle extended. Image ID: 01062 Species: Chestnut Cowrie, Date Cowrie, Cypraea spadicea Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA |
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| Feather duster worm. Image ID: 02544 Species: Feather duster worm, Eudistylia polymorpha Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA | Simnia and egg cluster on gorgonian. Image ID: 02556 Species: Simnia, Delonovolva aequalis Location: Anacapa Island, California, USA | Chestnut cowrie with mantle extended. Image ID: 01035 Species: Chestnut Cowrie, Date Cowrie, Cypraea spadicea Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA |
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| Anemone mouth. Image ID: 02484 Species: Aggregating anemone, Anthopleura elegantissima Location: San Miguel 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 | 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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| Water falling from a blue whale fluke as the whale dives to forage for food in the Santa Barbara Channel. Image ID: 27023 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: Santa Rosa Island, California, USA | California sea lion, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions. Image ID: 23433 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | A submarine cavern at Santa Barbara Island, underwater. Image ID: 23434 Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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| California sea lions, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions. Image ID: 23437 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | California sea lion, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions. Image ID: 23440 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | California sea lions, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions. Image ID: 23442 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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| California sea lions, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions. Image ID: 23447 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | California sea lions, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions. Image ID: 23450 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus 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: 10163 Species: Strawberry anemone, Corynactis californica Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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| California sea lions, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions. Image ID: 23453 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | California sea lions, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions. Image ID: 23458 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | A SCUBA diver enters a submarine cavern at Santa Barbara Island, underwater cave. Image ID: 23464 Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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| California sea lions, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions. Image ID: 23474 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | California sea lion, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions. Image ID: 23475 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | California sea lions, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions. Image ID: 23479 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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| California sea lion, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions. Image ID: 23485 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | A California sea lion, underwater inside a submarine cavern, at Santa Barbara Island. Image ID: 23486 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Blue whale fluke (tail) lifted high above the water as the whale dives in the Santa Barbara Channel. Image ID: 27020 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: Santa Rosa Island, California, USA |
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