Pandalid shrimps cover a yellow Picasso sponge.

Pandalid shrimps cover a yellow Picasso sponge. The white coral-like animals are not corals and are probably a new species of the white sponge Asbestopluma. Note the two red laser dots that are 29 centimeters apart. Image courtesy of NOAA/MBARI 2006.

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