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| California golden gorgonian on underwater rocky reef, 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. Catalina Island, California, USA. Image ID: 34622 Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | California golden gorgonian on underwater rocky reef, 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. Catalina Island, California, USA. Image ID: 34624 Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | 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 |
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| Green fan coral and dendronephthya soft corals on pristine reef, both extending polyps into ocean currents to capture passing plankton, Fiji. Image ID: 31610 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Black Sun Coral, Dendronephthya, Tubastrea micrantha Location: Fiji | 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 on rocky reef, 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: 25397 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Brown gorgonians on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. Gorgonians are filter-feeding temperate colonial species that live 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: 25398 Species: Brown gorgonian, Muricea fruticosa Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | California Golden gorgonian polyps. The golden 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: 03481 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian, polyp detail. Image ID: 07005 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Orange cup coral. Image ID: 02559 Species: Orange cup coral, Balanophyllia elegans Location: Monterey, 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 | 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: 30891 Species: Blacksmith, California golden gorgonian, Chromis punctipinnis, Muricea californica 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 | 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: 30923 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: 30928 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| 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: 30895 Species: Blacksmith, California golden gorgonian, Chromis punctipinnis, Muricea californica Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | 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: 30900 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Sarcophyton leather coral polyp detail, close up view, Fiji. Image ID: 34946 Species: Sarcophyton Soft Coral, Sarcophyton Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji |
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| Dendronephthya soft coral detail including polyps and calcium carbonate spicules, Fiji. Image ID: 34947 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: 34997 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: 35001 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji |
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| Dendronephthya soft coral detail including polyps and calcium carbonate spicules, Fiji. Image ID: 35003 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: 35004 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: 35005 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji |
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| Sarcophyton leather coral polyp detail, close up view, Fiji. Image ID: 35006 Species: Sarcophyton Soft Coral, Sarcophyton Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji | Sarcophyton leather coral polyp detail, close up view, Fiji. Image ID: 35007 Species: Sarcophyton Soft Coral, Sarcophyton Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji | Dendronephthya soft coral detail including polyps and calcium carbonate spicules, Fiji. Image ID: 35008 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji |
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| Dendronephthya soft coral detail including polyps and calcium carbonate spicules, Fiji. Image ID: 35009 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji | Green fan coral, extending into ocean currents where tiny polyps gather passing plankton, Fiji. Image ID: 31636 Species: Black Sun Coral, Tubastrea micrantha Location: Vatu I Ra Passage, Bligh Waters, Viti Levu Island, Fiji | Green fan coral and sea fan gorgonians on pristine reef, both extending polyps into ocean currents to capture passing plankton, Fiji. Image ID: 31638 Species: Gorgonian, Black Sun Coral, Gorgonacea, Tubastrea micrantha Location: Vatu I Ra Passage, Bligh Waters, Viti Levu Island, Fiji |
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