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Yellow zoanthids - Kulumanamana sp

Description

Yellow zoanthids - Kulumanamana sp. - colonizing a dead bamboo coral bush.Bamboo coral still possibly alive to right of image where a type ofbasket star - family Asteroschematidae - is wrapped about branch.

Credit

NOAA/OAR/OER, 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas, Leg 3.

Display Date

20160620T001929Z

Collection

Voyage to Inner Space
Ocean Exploration Collection
Modern Expeditions
2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Mariana