NE Canyons 2013
Detailed Description
Close-up of a "young" bamboo coral colony. You can see the white axial skeleton very clearly through the transparent tissue and one dark node near the base. The polyps have contracted and withdrawn their tentacles. The two large red polyps in the background are the octocoral Anthomastus.
Sources/Usage
Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Northeast U.S. Canyons Expedition 2013.