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| Guadalupe fur seals, two males fighting, Islas San Benito. Image ID: 02296 Species: Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi Location: San Benito Islands (Islas San Benito), Baja California, Mexico | California sea lion. Image ID: 02959 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA | Northern kelp crab crawls amidst kelp blades and stipes, midway in the water column (below the surface, above the ocean bottom) in a giant kelp forest. Image ID: 10218 Species: Northern kelp crab, Pugettia producta, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA |
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| Encrusting bryozoans colonize a giant kelp pneumatocyst (bubble). Approximately 3 inches (8cm). Image ID: 10207 Species: Kelp encrusting bryozoan, Membranipora, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA | Norris topsnail (aka, kelp snail), clings to a kelp pneumatocyst (bubble) at the base of a stipe/blade, midway in the water column. Image ID: 10214 Species: Norris' top snail, Norrisia norrisi, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA | Northern kelp crab crawls amidst kelp blades and stipes, midway in the water column (below the surface, above the ocean bottom) in a giant kelp forest. Image ID: 10219 Species: Northern kelp crab, Pugettia producta, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA |
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| Kelp canopy. Image ID: 02124 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA | Aggregating anemones. Arrayed in a clonal group, all of these anemones are genetically identical. San Nicholas Island. Image ID: 10150 Species: Aggregating anemone, Anthopleura elegantissima Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA | Aggregating anemones. Arrayed in a clonal group, all of these anemones are genetically identical. San Nicholas Island. Image ID: 10151 Species: Aggregating anemone, Anthopleura elegantissima Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA |
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| Aggregating anemones. Arrayed in a clonal group, all of these anemones are genetically identical. San Nicholas Island. Image ID: 10152 Species: Aggregating anemone, Anthopleura elegantissima Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA | A cluster of lightbulb tunicates cling to the rocky reef. Image ID: 10174 Species: Lightbulb tunicate, Clavelina huntsmani Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA | Feather duster worm extends from its hole in the reef to capture food floating by in the current, San Nicholas Island Island. Image ID: 10179 Species: Feather duster worm, Eudistylia polymorpha Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA |
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| Feather duster worm extends from its hole in the reef to capture food floating by in the current. Its hole is nestled between several holdfast stipes of giant kelp. San Nicholas Island Island. Image ID: 10181 Species: Feather duster worm, Eudistylia polymorpha, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA | Sunflower star (sun starfish), dorsal surface detail. Image ID: 10182 Species: Sunflower star, Pycnopodia helianthoides Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA | Catalina triopha nudibranch. Image ID: 10187 Species: Clown nudibranch, Clown Nudibranch, Triopha catalinae Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA |
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| Nudibranch. Image ID: 10188 Species: Sea lemon, Anisodoris nobilis Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA | Christmas tree worm. Image ID: 10204 Species: Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus spinosus Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA | Encrusting bryozoans colonize a giant kelp blade. Approximately 2 inches (5cm) across. Image ID: 10205 Species: Kelp encrusting bryozoan, Membranipora, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA |
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| Encrusting bryozoans colonize a giant kelp pneumatocyst (bubble). Approximately 3 inches (8cm). Image ID: 10209 Species: Kelp encrusting bryozoan, Membranipora, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA | Norris topsnail (aka, kelp snail), clings to a kelp pneumatocyst (bubble) at the base of a stipe/blade, midway in the water column. Image ID: 10212 Species: Norris' top snail, Norrisia norrisi, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA | Northern kelp crab crawls amidst kelp blades and stipes, midway in the water column (below the surface, above the ocean bottom) in a giant kelp forest. Image ID: 10215 Species: Northern kelp crab, Pugettia producta, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA |
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| Northern kelp crab crawls amidst kelp blades and stipes, midway in the water column (below the surface, above the ocean bottom) in a giant kelp forest. Image ID: 10216 Species: Northern kelp crab, Pugettia producta, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA | Northern kelp crab crawls amidst kelp blades and stipes, midway in the water column (below the surface, above the ocean bottom) in a giant kelp forest. Image ID: 10220 Species: Northern kelp crab, Pugettia producta, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA | Northern kelp crab crawls amidst kelp blades and stipes, midway in the water column (below the surface, above the ocean bottom) in a giant kelp forest. Image ID: 10223 Species: Northern kelp crab, Pugettia producta, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA |
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| Feather duster worm extends from its hole in the reef to capture food floating by in the current, San Nicholas Island Island. Image ID: 10180 Species: Feather duster worm, Eudistylia polymorpha Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA | Encrusting bryozoans colonize a giant kelp blade. Approximately 2 inches (5cm) across. Image ID: 10206 Species: Kelp encrusting bryozoan, Membranipora, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA | Encrusting bryozoans colonize a giant kelp pneumatocyst (bubble). Approximately 3 inches (8cm). Image ID: 10208 Species: Kelp encrusting bryozoan, Membranipora, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA |
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| Encrusting bryozoans colonize a giant kelp pneumatocyst (bubble). Approximately 3 inches (8cm). Image ID: 10210 Species: Kelp encrusting bryozoan, Membranipora, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA | Encrusting bryozoans colonize a giant kelp pneumatocyst (bubble). Approximately 3 inches (8cm). Image ID: 10211 Species: Kelp encrusting bryozoan, Membranipora, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA | Norris topsnail (aka, kelp snail), clings to a kelp pneumatocyst (bubble) at the base of a stipe/blade, midway in the water column. Image ID: 10213 Species: Norris' top snail, Norrisia norrisi, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA |
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