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Kelp frond, San Clemente Island, Macrocystis pyrifera
Kelp detail showing pneumatocysts, Macrocystis pyrifera
Kelp detail, Macrocystis pyrifera, San Clemente Island
Kelp frond, Macrocystis pyrifera, Santa Barbara Island
Kelp detail showing pneumatocysts (air bladders), Macrocystis pyrifera, San Clemente Island
Kelp detail showing pneumatocysts (air bladders), Macrocystis pyrifera, San Clemente Island
Kelp fronds, Macrocystis pyrifera, San Clemente Island
Kelp fronds with encrusting bryozoans, Macrocystis pyrifera, San Clemente Island
Purple urchins destroying/eating giant kelp holdfast, Macrocystis pyrifera, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Santa Barbara Island
Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts (air bladders), Macrocystis pyrifera, San Clemente Island
Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts (air bladders), Macrocystis pyrifera, San Clemente Island
Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts (air bladders), Macrocystis pyrifera, San Clemente Island
Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts (air bladders), Macrocystis pyrifera, San Clemente Island
Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts (air bladders), Macrocystis pyrifera, San Clemente Island
Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts, Macrocystis pyrifera, San Clemente Island
Kelp fronds reach the surface and spread out to form a canopy, Macrocystis pyrifera, San Clemente Island
Kelp fronds, Macrocystis pyrifera, San Clemente Island
Kelp fronds, Macrocystis pyrifera, San Clemente Island
Kelp fronds, Macrocystis pyrifera, San Clemente Island
Kelp detail showing pneumatocysts (air bladders), Macrocystis pyrifera, San Clemente Island
Kelp fronds, Macrocystis pyrifera, San Clemente Island
Kelp forest, fronds backlit by sun, Macrocystis pyrifera, San Clemente Island
Kelp canopy, Macrocystis pyrifera, San Clemente Island
Kelp detail showing pneumatocysts (air bladders), Macrocystis pyrifera, San Clemente Island
Encrusting bryozoans colonize a giant kelp pneumatocyst (bubble). Approximately 3 inches (8cm), Macrocystis pyrifera, Membranipora, San Nicholas Island
Norris topsnail (aka, kelp snail), clings to a kelp pneumatocyst (bubble) at the base of a stipe/blade, midway in the water column, Macrocystis pyrifera, Norrisia norrisi, San Nicholas Island
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, Macrocystis pyrifera
Kelp fronds, Macrocystis pyrifera, San Clemente Island
Kelp detail showing pneumatocysts (air bladders), Macrocystis pyrifera, San Clemente Island
Encrusting bryozoans colonize a giant kelp pneumatocyst (bubble). Approximately 3 inches (8cm), Macrocystis pyrifera, Membranipora, San Nicholas Island
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