Algal Crusts on Tektite Reef (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

Algal Crusts on Tektite Reef

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Orange peyssonnelid algal crusts spreading over a lobe of Orbicella annularis at 14-meter depth on the Tektite reef on the southern shore of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Image courtesy of Peter Edmunds.

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