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| Colorful dendronephthya soft corals and various hard corals, flourishing on a pristine healthy south pacific coral reef. The soft corals are inflated in strong ocean currents, capturing passing planktonic food with their many small polyps. Image ID: 31407 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji | Colorful dendronephthya soft corals and various hard corals, flourishing on a pristine healthy south pacific coral reef. The soft corals are inflated in strong ocean currents, capturing passing planktonic food with their many small polyps. Image ID: 31417 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji | Colorful dendronephthya soft corals and various hard corals, flourishing on a pristine healthy south pacific coral reef. The soft corals are inflated in strong ocean currents, capturing passing planktonic food with their many small polyps. Image ID: 31431 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Fiji |
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| A corynactis anemone polyp, Corynactis californica is a corallimorph found in genetically identical clusters, club-tipped anemone. Image ID: 33454 Species: Strawberry Anemone, Corynactis californica Location: San Diego, California, USA | A corynactis anemone polyp, Corynactis californica is a corallimorph found in genetically identical clusters, club-tipped anemone. Image ID: 33456 Species: Strawberry Anemone, Corynactis californica Location: San Diego, California, USA | Corynactis anemone polyp, a corallimorph, extends its arms into passing ocean currents to catch food. Image ID: 33478 Species: Strawberry Anemone, Corynactis californica Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Corynactis anemone polyp, a corallimorph, extends its arms into passing ocean currents to catch food. Image ID: 33479 Species: Strawberry Anemone, Corynactis californica Location: San Diego, California, USA | Corynactis anemone polyp, a corallimorph, extends its arms into passing ocean currents to catch food. Image ID: 33480 Species: Strawberry Anemone, Corynactis californica Location: San Diego, California, USA | Corynactis anemone polyp, a corallimorph, extends its arms into passing ocean currents to catch food. Image ID: 33481 Species: Strawberry Anemone, Corynactis californica Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Corynactis anemone polyp, a corallimorph, extends its arms into passing ocean currents to catch food. Image ID: 33482 Species: Strawberry Anemone, Corynactis californica Location: San Diego, California, USA | Corynactis anemone polyp, a corallimorph, extends its arms into passing ocean currents to catch food. Image ID: 33483 Species: Strawberry Anemone, Corynactis californica Location: San Diego, California, USA | Corynactis anemone polyp, a corallimorph, extends its arms into passing ocean currents to catch food. Image ID: 33484 Species: Strawberry Anemone, Corynactis californica Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Corynactis anemone polyp, a corallimorph, extends its arms into passing ocean currents to catch food. Image ID: 33485 Species: Strawberry Anemone, Corynactis californica Location: San Diego, California, USA | Corynactis anemone polyp, a corallimorph, extends its arms into passing ocean currents to catch food. Image ID: 33486 Species: Strawberry Anemone, Corynactis californica Location: San Diego, California, USA | Golden gorgonian on underwater rocky reef, amid kelp forest, Catalina Island. 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: 34219 Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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| Garibaldi and California golden gorgonian on underwater rocky reef, San Clemente Island. 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: 30864 Species: Garibaldi, California golden gorgonian, Hypsypops rubicundus, Muricea californica Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | California golden gorgonian on underwater rocky reef below kelp forest, San Clemente Island. 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, San Clemente Island. 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: 30909 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Blacksmith Chromis and California golden gorgonian on underwater rocky reef, San Clemente Island. 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: 30956 Species: Blacksmith, California golden gorgonian, Chromis punctipinnis, Muricea californica Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Polyp of a strawberry anemone (club-tipped anemone, more correctly a corallimorph). Image ID: 01039 Species: Strawberry anemone, Corynactis californica Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA | Corynactis anemone polyp, a corallimorph, extends its arms into passing ocean currents to catch food. Image ID: 33477 Species: Strawberry Anemone, Corynactis californica Location: San Diego, California, USA | Red gorgonian polyps. The red gorgonian is a colonial organism composed of thousands of tiny polyps. Each polyp secretes calcium which accumulates to form the structure of the colony. The fan-shaped gorgonian is oriented perpendicular to prevailing ocean currents to better enable to filter-feeding polyps to capture passing plankton and detritus passing by. Image ID: 03480 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Dendronephthya soft coral detail including polyps and calcium carbonate spicules, Fiji. Image ID: 34799 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji | Coral polyp detail, Fiji. Image ID: 34800 Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji | Green fan coral, extending into ocean currents where tiny polyps gather passing plankton, Fiji. Image ID: 34830 Location: Vatu I Ra Passage, Bligh Waters, Viti Levu Island, Fiji |
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| Dendronephthya soft coral detail including polyps and calcium carbonate spicules, Fiji. Image ID: 34844 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji | Dendronephthya soft coral detail including polyps and calcium carbonate spicules, Fiji. Image ID: 34846 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji | Dendronephthya soft coral detail including polyps and calcium carbonate spicules, Fiji. Image ID: 34859 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Fiji |
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| Dendronephthya soft coral detail including polyps and calcium carbonate spicules, Fiji. Image ID: 34886 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Fiji | Dendronephthya soft coral detail including polyps and calcium carbonate spicules, Fiji. Image ID: 34887 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Fiji | Gorgonian sea fan detail, Fiji. Image ID: 34900 Species: Gorgonian, Gorgonacea Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji |
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