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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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