Christmas Tree Coral
Antipathes dendrochristos

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Live corals

Dead corals

About the pictures

Photographed from Delta submersible by researchers from NMFS SWFSC Fisheries Ecology Division and University of California Santa Barbara during surveys of deepwater rocky banks off southern California.

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Contact: SWFSC Fisheries Ecology Division, Habitat Ecology Team