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| Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts. Image ID: 00627 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | A kelp forest, with sunbeams passing through kelp fronds. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky bottom to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Image ID: 02411 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | A SCUBA diver swims through a giant kelp forest which is tilted back by strong ocean currents. Giant kelp, the fastest plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky bottom to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Image ID: 01107 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| San Clemente Island Pyramid Head, the distinctive pyramid shaped southern end of the island. San Clemente Island Pyramid Head, showing geologic terracing, underwater reefs and giant kelp forests. Image ID: 26003 Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | California reef covered with purple hydrocoral (Stylaster californicus, Allopora californica), Farnsworth Banks. Image ID: 37177 Species: Hydrocoral, Allopora californica, Stylaster californicus Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Pacific torpedo ray Tetronarce californica, amidst huge schools of fish and baitfish, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina Island. This electric ray will shock to hell out of you if you are not careful. Image ID: 37231 Species: Pacific torpedo ray, Tetronarce californica, Torpedo californica Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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| Giant black sea bass, endangered species, reaching up to 8' in length and 500 lbs, amid giant kelp forest. Image ID: 33354 Species: Giant black sea bass, Stereolepis gigas Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Sunlight streams through giant kelp forest. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky reef to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Image ID: 33433 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Garibaldi and golden gorgonian, with a underwater forest of giant kelp rising in the background, underwater. Image ID: 23432 Species: California golden gorgonian, Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus, Muricea californica Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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| Bryozoan grows on a 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: 25395 Species: Red gorgonian, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Aerial photo of the West End of Catalina Island. Image ID: 25978 Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | California sea lions swim and socialize over a kelp-covered rocky reef, underwater at San Clemente Island in California's southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 02158 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| A SCUBA diver swimming over a rocky reef covered with kelp, watches a brightly colored orange garibaldi fish. Image ID: 01113 Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | California reef covered with purple hydrocoral (Stylaster californicus, Allopora californica), Farnsworth Banks. Image ID: 37184 Species: Hydrocoral, Allopora californica, Stylaster californicus Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Submarine Reef with Hydrocoral and Invertebrates, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina Island. Image ID: 34187 Species: Hydrocoral, Strawberry anemone, Allopora californica, Corynactis californica, Stylaster californicus Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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| Sunrise at San Clemente Island, south end showing China Hat (Balanced Rock) and Pyramid Head, near Pyramid Cove, storm clouds. Panoramic photo. Image ID: 30855 Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA Pano dimensions: 5232 x 24109 | ||
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| Garibaldi swims in the kelp forest, sunlight filters through towering giant kelp plants rising from the ocean bottom to the surface, underwater. Image ID: 23419 Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus Location: Catalina 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: 25393 Species: Red gorgonian, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Garibaldi swims in the kelp forest, sunlight filters through towering giant kelp plants rising from the ocean bottom to the surface, underwater. Image ID: 37091 Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Huge mixed schools of fish on Farnsworth Banks, Catalina Island, California. Image ID: 37244 Species: Halfmoon perch, Medialuna californiensis Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian Leptogorgia chilensis, purple hydrocoral Stylaster californicus, and yellow zoanthid anemone Epizoanthus giveni, at Farnsworth Banks, Catalina Island. Image ID: 37251 Species: Red gorgonian, Hydrocoral, Givens Zoanthid, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis, Allopora californica, Stylaster californicus, Epizoanthus giveni Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | The rare yellow zoanthid anemone Epizoanthus giveni, in large aggregations on the Yellow Wall at Farnsworth Banks, Catalina Island. Image ID: 37270 Species: Givens Zoanthid, Epizoanthus giveni Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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| Red gorgonian Leptogorgia chilensis, purple hydrocoral Stylaster californicus, and yellow zoanthid anemone Epizoanthus giveni, at Farnsworth Banks, Catalina Island. Image ID: 37271 Species: Red gorgonian, Hydrocoral, Givens Zoanthid, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis, Allopora californica, Stylaster californicus, Epizoanthus giveni Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Giant black sea bass, gathering in a mating - courtship aggregation amid kelp forest, Catalina Island. Image ID: 33355 Species: Giant black sea bass, Stereolepis gigas Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Giant black sea bass, endangered species, reaching up to 8' in length and 500 lbs, amid giant kelp forest. Image ID: 33356 Species: Giant black sea bass, Stereolepis gigas Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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| Sunlight streams through giant kelp forest. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky reef to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Image ID: 33434 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Sunlight streams through giant kelp forest. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky reef to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Image ID: 33435 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Sunlight streams through giant kelp forest. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky reef to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Image ID: 33436 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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| Sunlight streams through giant kelp forest. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky reef to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Image ID: 33437 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Sunlight streams through giant kelp forest. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky reef to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Image ID: 33438 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | |
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