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A globular melon sponge on a black rock outcrop.
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A beautiful vase sponge next to a living bamboo coral bush while a smallruffled sponge is in dead bamboo coral debris.
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Large white ruffled sponges with a large red shrimp and a large purple featherstar crinoid.
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A closeup of the large ruffled sponge in expn2815 reveals besides the large redshrimp, three small feather star crinoids that were not apparent in the moredistant view. A portion of the large purple feather star is seen.
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A beautiful yellow sponge. What purpose would this color serve in the eternaldarkness of the depth at which this sponge is located?
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A large yellow sponge, dead coral branches colonized by small purpleoctocorals, white sponges, and pink brittle stars. A veritableriot of color in the abyssal ocean.
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A large purple feather star crinoid seen on a large brown sponge. A smallerwhite feather star crinoid is seen near the base of the sponge.
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A large purple feather star crinoid seen on a large brown sponge.
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A ruffle sponge growing from a larger sponge.
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A spiky sponge in the midst of a number of other sponges.
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Looking down on a large circular sponge.
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A large white sponge with a large purple feather star crinoid and a smallbamboo coral with two small black feather star crinoids. A bamboo coralin the foreground has numerous associated brittle stars.
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A branched tree-like sponge.
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A branched tree-like sponge.
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A small encrusting sponge that appears to have a growth pattern following thelocalized rock texture.
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A small encrusting sponge that appears to have a growth pattern following thelocalized rock texture.
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A small encrusting sponge that appears to have a growth pattern following thelocalized rock texture.
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Perhaps a carnivorous sponge with polychaete worm in its upper branches.
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A small carnivorous sponge.
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A small carnivorous sponge.
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