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South Pacific Ocean, Duration 12 seconds
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Dendrophyllia nigrescens, D..
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Bare Island
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Bunaken, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
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Kadena, Okinawa, Japan
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South Pacific Ocean, Duration 12 seconds
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Polyp of Dendrophyllia nigrescens.
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These normally have their tentacles retracted during the day; this one was doing a little food catching in the current this morning
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You don't have to put on a silly suit, breath through a tube, and fall through 100 ft of water to see scenes like this, and yet I did!
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South Pacific Ocean, Duration 69 seconds, Shot includes Pseudanthias squamipinnis (Scalefin anthias)
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Dendrophyllia nigrescens.
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Thisi is a large polyp stony coral found in Australian waters. Even though it is a stony coral, it is solitary so it's skeletons do not form reefs. It differs from many other stony corals in that it does not contain symbiotic algae - zooxanthellae - so does not derive food from sunlight. This means it can live in deeper waters. You can see in this photo that the polyp tentacles are clear - that is due to the absence of algae cells.
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Kasawari, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
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Tubastrea micrantha is not the primary subject of the video clip; the primary subject is Pseudanthias huchti (Threadfin anthias). Coral Sea, Schooling, Duration 81 seconds
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2001 California Academy of Sciences
CalPhotos
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2005 California Academy of Sciences
CalPhotos
These polyps emerge only in the dark. They were photographed on the overhead of a submerged passageway in a wreck at Chuuk Lagoon.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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