Catalina Head Photos

Parasitic zoanthid anemones cover and encrust and overwhelm a golden gorgonian, Catalina Head.
Species: Luminescent parazoanthid, Zoanthid anemone, Parazoanthus lucificum, Savalia lucifica
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 37293  

Parasitic zoanthid anemones cover and encrust and overwhelm a golden gorgonian, Catalina Head.
Species: Luminescent parazoanthid, Zoanthid anemone, Parazoanthus lucificum, Savalia lucifica
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 37294  

Red gorgonian Leptogorgia chilensis, Catalina Island.
Species: Red gorgonian, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 37295  

Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest.
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 37297  

Brown gorgonian and California golden gorgonian on underwater rocky reef below kelp forest, Catalina Island. Gorgonians are 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.
Species: Brown gorgonian, California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Muricea fruticosa
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 37292  

Selfie, giant kelp forest, Catalina Island.
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 37296  

California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher, Catalina Island.
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 40514  

Juvenile California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher, Catalina Island.
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 40515  

California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher, Catalina Island.
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 40518  

California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher, Catalina Island.
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 40530  

Sheephead and invasive sargassum, Catalina.
Species: Sargassum, Sheephead wrasse, Sargassum horneri, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 30974  

California sheephead and golden gorgonian, giant kelp forest filters sunlight in the background, underwater.
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Muricea californica, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 23449  

California sheephead and golden gorgonian, giant kelp forest filters sunlight in the background, underwater.
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Muricea californica, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 23472  

Juvenile sheephead and gorgonian, Catalina.
Species: Sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 30975  

Juvenile sheephead swims above dead/dying brown gorgonian covered with yellow parasitic zoanthid anemones. Eagle Rock.
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Luminescent parazoanthid, Parazoanthus lucificum, Savalia lucifica, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 07006  

Juvenile sheephead, Farnsworth Banks.
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 05184  

California sheephead, juvenile.
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 00371  

California sheephead, juvenile.
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 01935  

Juvenile sheephead swims above dead/dying brown gorgonian covered with yellow parasitic zoanthid anemones. Eagle Rock.
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Luminescent parazoanthid, Parazoanthus lucificum, Savalia lucifica, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 07007  

Pacific torpedo ray, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina, Torpedo californica.
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Red gorgonian, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 03822  

Pacific torpedo ray, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina, Torpedo californica.
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Red gorgonian, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 04706  

Pacific torpedo ray, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina, Torpedo californica.
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Red gorgonian, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 04708  

Pacific torpedo ray, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina, Torpedo californica.
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 05174  

Pacific torpedo ray, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina, Torpedo californica.
Species: California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 05185