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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. Catalina Island, California.
Species: Giant Kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 37259  

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. Catalina Island, California.
Species: Giant Kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 37260  

Kelp fronds covered with hydroids.
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California
Image ID: 38526  

Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest. Giant kelp can grow up to 2' in a single day given optimal conditions. Epic submarine forests of kelp grow throughout California's Southern Channel Islands.
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 34191  

Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest. Giant kelp can grow up to 2' in a single day given optimal conditions. Epic submarine forests of kelp grow throughout California's Southern Channel Islands.
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 34192  

Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest. Giant kelp can grow up to 2' in a single day given optimal conditions. Epic submarine forests of kelp grow throughout California's Southern Channel Islands.
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 34193  

Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest. Giant kelp can grow up to 2' in a single day given optimal conditions. Epic submarine forests of kelp grow throughout California's Southern Channel Islands.
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California
Image ID: 23544  

Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts, gas filled bladders float the kelp and leaf-like blades collect sunlight, underwater.
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 23546  

Rapid Bay Jetty Aerial Photo, South Australia. The now-derelict jetty (wharf, pier) at Rapid Bay is famous for great SCUBA diving, including opportunities to see leafy sea dragons.
Location: Rapid Bay Jetty, South Australia
Image ID: 39292  

Kelp fronds with encrusting bryozoans.
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California
Image ID: 03402  

Purple urchins destroying/eating giant kelp holdfast.
Species: Purple urchin, Macrocystis pyrifera, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California
Image ID: 03404  

Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts (air bladders).
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California
Image ID: 03410  

Kelp fronds reach the surface and spread out to form a canopy.
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California
Image ID: 06099  

Encrusting bryozoans colonize a giant kelp pneumatocyst (bubble). Approximately 3 inches (8cm).
Species: Kelp encrusting bryozoan, Macrocystis pyrifera, Membranipora
Location: San Nicholas Island, California
Image ID: 10207  

Norris topsnail (aka, kelp snail), clings to a kelp pneumatocyst (bubble) at the base of a stipe/blade, midway in the water column.
Species: Norris' top snail, Macrocystis pyrifera, Norrisia norrisi
Location: San Nicholas Island, California
Image ID: 10214  

Sticky-leaf monkeyflower, or sticky monkeyflower.
Species: Sticky-leaf monkeyflower, Mimulus aurantiacus
Location: San Elijo Lagoon, Encinitas, California
Image ID: 11674  

Sticky-leaf monkeyflower, or sticky monkeyflower.
Species: Sticky-leaf monkeyflower, Mimulus aurantiacus
Location: San Elijo Lagoon, Encinitas, California
Image ID: 11675  

Sticky-leaf monkeyflower, or sticky monkeyflower.
Species: Sticky-leaf monkeyflower, Mimulus aurantiacus
Location: San Elijo Lagoon, Encinitas, California
Image ID: 11676  

Sticky-leaf monkeyflower, or sticky monkeyflower.
Species: Sticky-leaf monkeyflower, Mimulus aurantiacus
Location: San Elijo Lagoon, Encinitas, California
Image ID: 11677  

Sticky-leaf monkeyflower, or sticky monkeyflower.
Species: Sticky-leaf monkeyflower, Mimulus aurantiacus
Location: San Elijo Lagoon, Encinitas, California
Image ID: 11678  

Leafy Seadragon.
Species: Leafy seadragon, Phycodurus eques
Image ID: 14469  

Leafy Seadragon.
Species: Leafy seadragon, Phycodurus eques
Image ID: 14470  

Leafy Seadragon.
Species: Leafy seadragon, Phycodurus eques
Image ID: 14471  

Leafy filefish.
Species: Leafy filefish, Chaetoderma penicilligera
Image ID: 14501  

Leafy filefish.
Species: Leafy filefish, Chaetoderma penicilligera
Image ID: 14502  

Leafy filefish.
Species: Leafy filefish, Chaetoderma penicilligera
Image ID: 14503  

Leafy filefish.
Species: Leafy filefish, Chaetoderma penicilligera
Image ID: 14504  

Leafy filefish.
Species: Leafy filefish, Chaetoderma penicilligera
Image ID: 14553  

Leafy Seadragon.
Species: Leafy seadragon, Phycodurus eques
Image ID: 14555  

Leafy Seadragon.
Species: Leafy seadragon, Phycodurus eques
Image ID: 14556