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![Gold, purple, green, and white corals on a bathymetric high point expn5237.jpg Gold, purple, green, and white corals on a bathymetric high point](https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3-east-testmedia-noaa.woc.noaa.gov/dam/Photos/legacy/pl23_expn5237.jpg)
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Gold, purple, green, and white corals on a bathymetric high point. Largepinkish brittle stars are seen primarily in the purple paramuricean corals while the white and greenish corals do not seem to have any associated brittle starsor other life . What appears to be a very large white urchin is in the upperleft of the highest point on this rock.
Credit
NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2015 Hohonu Moana
Display Date
20150902T004007Z
Location
Pacific Ocean, Swordfish Seamount
Collection
Voyage to Inner Space
Ocean Exploration Collection
Modern Expeditions
2015 Hohonu Moana