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California golden gorgonian and small juvenile sheephead fishes on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The golden gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Each individual polyp is a distinct animal, together they secrete calcium that forms the structure of the colony. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by.
Image ID: 23421
Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Sheephead and golden gorgonian, underwater in a kelp forest.
Image ID: 23528
Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Gorgonians grow on rocky reef, kelp forest and a white boat floating on the surface can be seen in the background, underwater.
Image ID: 23537
Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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Sheephead and golden gorgonian, underwater in a kelp forest.
Image ID: 23586
Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Juvenile sheephead wrasse.
Image ID: 14001
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher | Sheephead wrasse, female.
Image ID: 14036
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher |
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Juvenile sheephead wrasse.
Image ID: 14944
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher | California sheephead, adult male.
Image ID: 01936
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Juvenile sheephead, Farnsworth Banks.
Image ID: 05184
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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California sheephead, juvenile.
Image ID: 00371
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | California sheephead, gorgonian.
Image ID: 01124
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | California sheephead, juvenile.
Image ID: 01935
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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California sheephead and gorgonian amid kelp forest.
Image ID: 04647
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | California sheephead, adult male.
Image ID: 07072
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | California sheephead, male.
Image ID: 01125
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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California sheephead, female.
Image ID: 01937
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Sheephead and sponges, Bens Rock.
Image ID: 02379
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher | California sheephead, gorgonian.
Image ID: 03456
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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Sheephead and starfish, Roca Ben.
Image ID: 03733
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher | Sheephead and sulfur sponges, Roca Ben.
Image ID: 03734
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher | Pacific torpedo ray, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina, Torpedo californica.
Image ID: 05174
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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Sheephead.
Image ID: 05182
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: California, USA | Pacific torpedo ray, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina, Torpedo californica.
Image ID: 05185
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Juvenile sheephead wrasse.
Image ID: 08647
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher |
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Sheephead wrasse, adult male coloration (a juvenile or female is partially seen to the right).
Image ID: 09624
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Sheephead wrasse, adult male coloration.
Image ID: 09625
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Sheephead wrasse, adult male coloration.
Image ID: 09626
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico |
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Sheephead wrasse, adult male coloration.
Image ID: 09627
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Sheephead wrasse, adult male coloration.
Image ID: 09628
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Sheephead wrasse, adult male coloration.
Image ID: 09629
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico |
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