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California hydrocoral

Stylaster californicus

Classification

Schmieder Bank is a rocky undersea bank west of Point Sur, California, roughly 25 nautical miles (46 km) south of Monterey, supporting an extraordinarily lush biological community, including very large individual colonies of the California hydrocoral, Stylaster californicus. The bank lies about 3 nautical miles (6 km) west-southwest offshore from Point Sur. Within the 75-meter contour, the bank is roughly elliptical, with its major axis running northwest–southeast, enclosing an area of about 1 square mile (3 km2).

Distribution

(c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
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