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| Colorful and exotic coral reef in Fiji, with soft corals, hard corals, anthias fishes, anemones, and sea fan gorgonians. Image ID: 34896 Species: Anthias, Dendronephthya soft coral, Dendronephthya, Pseudanthias Location: Fiji | Colorful and exotic coral reef in Fiji, with soft corals, hard corals, anthias fishes, anemones, and sea fan gorgonians. Image ID: 34897 Species: Anthias, Dendronephthya soft coral, Dendronephthya, Pseudanthias Location: Fiji | Gorgonian sea fan detail, Fiji. Image ID: 34900 Species: Gorgonian, Gorgonacea Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji |
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| Plexauridae sea fan or gorgonian on coral reef. This gorgonian is a type of colonial alcyonacea soft coral that filters plankton from passing ocean currents. Image ID: 34909 Species: Gorgonian, Gorgonacea Location: Bligh Waters, Fiji | Beautiful South Pacific coral reef, with Plexauridae sea fans, schooling anthias fish and colorful dendronephthya soft corals, Fiji. Image ID: 34922 Species: Anthias, Dendronephthya soft coral, Gorgonian, Dendronephthya, Gorgonacea, Pseudanthias Location: Fiji | Crinoid, gorgonian sea fan, anthias fish and diver, Fiji. Image ID: 34933 Species: Anthias, Crinoid feather star, Gorgonian, Crinoidea, Gorgonacea, Pseudanthias Location: Bligh Waters, Fiji |
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| 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: 35083 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico | 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: 35095 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico | Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 37055 Species: Red gorgonian, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Brown gorgonian and California golden gorgonian on underwater rocky reef below kelp forest, San Clemente 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. Image ID: 37056 Species: Brown gorgonian, California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Muricea fruticosa Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | 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: 37057 Species: California golden gorgonian, 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. Image ID: 37058 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Red gorgonian and California golden gorgonian on underwater rocky reef below kelp forest, San Clemente 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, San Clemente Island. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 37060 Species: Red gorgonian, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Sheephead wrasse, Garibaldi and golden gorgonian, with a underwater forest of giant kelp rising in the background, underwater. Image ID: 37093 Species: California golden gorgonian, Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus, Muricea californica Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Garibaldi and golden gorgonian, with a underwater forest of giant kelp rising in the background, underwater. Image ID: 37097 Species: California golden gorgonian, Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus, Muricea californica Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| 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. Image ID: 37098 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian and California golden gorgonian on underwater rocky reef below kelp forest, San Clemente 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, San Clemente Island. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 37115 Species: Red gorgonian, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Brown gorgonian and California golden gorgonian on underwater rocky reef below kelp forest, San Clemente 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. Image ID: 37117 Species: Brown gorgonian, California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Muricea fruticosa Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 37120 Species: Red gorgonian, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis 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. Image ID: 37123 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 37124 Species: Red gorgonian, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Garibaldi and golden gorgonian, with a underwater forest of giant kelp rising in the background, underwater. Image ID: 37154 Location: Catalina Island, 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: 37156 Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Golden gorgonian (Muricea californica) on Farnsworth Banks, Catalina Island. Image ID: 37180 Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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| California golden gorgonian under a kelp forest, Catalina Island. Image ID: 37186 Location: Catalina 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: 37205 Location: San Diego, California, USA | Red gorgonian Leptogorgia chilensis with yellow zoanthid anemone Epizoanthis giveni, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina Island, California. Image ID: 37218 Species: Red gorgonian, Givens Zoanthid, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis, Epizoanthus giveni Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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| Red gorgonian Leptogorgia chilensis, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina Island, California. Image ID: 37224 Species: Red gorgonian, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian, California golden gorgonian, purple hydrocoral, on rocky reef, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina Island. Image ID: 37245 Species: Hydrocoral, Allopora californica, Stylaster californicus Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian Leptogorgia chilensis, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina Island, California. Image ID: 37246 Species: Red gorgonian, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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