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Stylatula elongata
White Sea Pen

Photographer: Lovell and Libby Langstroth
Organization: California Academy of Sciences
Collection: CalAcademy

ID: 0000 0000 0805 0823 (2005-08-15)

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date of photo Sep 1989

location Monterey Bay (Monterey County, California, US)

family Virgularidae

order Pennatulacea

class Anthozoa

habitat Intertidal/Subtidal

notes These sea pens beautifully bioluminesce and rapidly retreat beneath the sand when disturbed. Depth 10 m.

camera Nikon in Oceanic housing

photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

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common names White Sea Pen (photographer)

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