Colonies of the stony coral, Lophelia pertusa, clinging to carbonate boulders a few meters from the mussel beds shown in the previous image. The colony in the foreground is over a meter (~39 inches) wide.
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Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Windows to the Deep 2019. Download larger version (jpg, 1.4 MB).
Colonies of the stony coral, Lophelia pertusa, clinging to carbonate boulders a few meters from mussel beds. The colony in the foreground is over a meter (~39 inches) wide.
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