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Large octocoral bush with purple base imaged in expn5301. Although there arepatches of both purple and whitish grey polyps, the purple do not seem tobe a separate colonizing coral or zoanthid species. Two large black whipcorals with white polyps are also seen.
Credit
NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2015 Hohonu Moana
Display Date
20150914T020952Z
Location
Hawaii, Niihau
Collection
Voyage to Inner Space
Ocean Exploration Collection
Modern Expeditions
2015 Hohonu Moana