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Yellow-orange Tube Sponges, a Red Cup Sponge, Red Rope Sponges, and in the background a Deep Water Gorgonian.  This mini-habitat was a shelf in a deep recess of Grand Cayman's North Wall.

North Wall, Grand Cayman Island - Depth 135 feet or 41 meters

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Marine Invertebrates of Reefs, Walls, and Caves

Caribbean Underwater Photography Gallery V

 
 
 
  * The habitat pictured above contains several interesting members.  The group of yellow-orange Tube Sponges are a Verongia sp., probably Verongia fistularis.  The Red Cup Sponge is a Mycale sp. , and the Red Rope sponges are Haliclona rubens.  In the background is the Deep Water Gorgonian, Icilogorgia schrammi.  The foreground  contains a clump of green algae.

 This grouping was found on a protected shelf  in a deep recess of Grand Cayman Island's Great North Wall.  The depth is about 130 feet or 40 meters.

North Wall, Grand Cayman Island - Depth 135 feet or 41 meters

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