A Bright Bank area blanketed by dense mats of the spongy green alga Codium repens

Fig. 4. Some areas of Bright Bank are blanketed by dense mats of the spongy green alga Codium repens, as shown here at 60 m (180 ft) depth. Image courtesy of FGBNMS/UNCW-NURC.

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