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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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