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| Sea nettles. Image ID: 14084 Species: Sea nettles, Chrysaora fuscescens | Sea nettles. Image ID: 14087 Species: Sea nettles, Chrysaora fuscescens | Purple-striped jelly. Image ID: 14923 Species: Purple-striped jellyfish, Chrysaora colorata |
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| Sea nettles. Image ID: 14928 Species: Sea nettles, Chrysaora fuscescens | Aggregating anemone detail. Image ID: 00290 Species: Aggregating anemone, Anthopleura elegantissima Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA | Purple-striped jellyfish. Image ID: 01034 Species: Purple-striped jellyfish, Chrysaora colorata Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Chestnut cowrie with mantle extended, feather duster worm. Image ID: 01061 Species: Chestnut Cowrie, Date Cowrie, Cypraea spadicea, Eudistylia polymorpha Location: Santa Cruz Island, California, USA | Chestnut cowry, mantle exposed. Image ID: 00624 Species: Chestnut Cowrie, Date Cowrie, Cypraea spadicea Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA | Chestnut cowrie with mantle extended. Image ID: 01062 Species: Chestnut Cowrie, Date Cowrie, Cypraea spadicea Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA |
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| Jellyfish. Image ID: 02489 Species: Purple-striped jellyfish, Chrysaora colorata Location: San Diego, California, USA | Califonia cone, Coronado Islands. Image ID: 02551 Species: California cone, Conus californicus Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico | Flamingo tongue snail. Image ID: 02554 Species: Flamingo tongue cowrie, Cyphoma gibbosum Location: Roatan, Honduras |
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| Flamingo tongue snail. Image ID: 02567 Species: Flamingo tongue cowrie, Cyphoma gibbosum Location: Roatan, Honduras | 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 | Purple-striped jellyfish. Image ID: 03778 Species: Purple-striped jellyfish, Chrysaora colorata Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Red gorgonian, polyp detail. Image ID: 07005 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Chestnut cowrie with mantle extended. Image ID: 01035 Species: Chestnut Cowrie, Date Cowrie, Cypraea spadicea Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA | Anemone mouth. Image ID: 02484 Species: Aggregating anemone, Anthopleura elegantissima Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA |
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| Orange cup coral. Image ID: 02559 Species: Orange cup coral, Balanophyllia elegans Location: Monterey, California, USA | Sea nettles. Image ID: 08961 Species: Sea nettles, Chrysaora fuscescens | Purple-striped jelly. Image ID: 08971 Species: Purple-striped jellyfish, Chrysaora colorata |
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| 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 | Corynactis anemones on Oil Rig Elly underwater structure. Image ID: 31130 Species: Strawberry anemone, Corynactis californica Location: Long Beach, California, USA | Tube anemone. Image ID: 02480 Species: Tube anemone, Pachycerianthus fimbriatus Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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| A corynactis anemone polyp, Corynactis californica is a corallimorph found in genetically identical clusters, club-tipped anemone. Image ID: 33458 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: 33459 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: 33460 Species: Strawberry Anemone, Corynactis californica Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| A corynactis anemone polyp, Corynactis californica is a corallimorph found in genetically identical clusters, club-tipped anemone. Image ID: 33465 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: 33466 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: 33467 Species: Strawberry Anemone, Corynactis californica Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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