Red gorgonian octocoral

White sparsely branched octocoral

White sparsely branched octocoral. Note small reddish spider-like creatures.

White sparsely branched octocoral

Yellow scleractinian? coral

Strange life form attached to pillow lavas. Perhaps a xenophyophore, perhaps an odd coral.

Small white coral, brittle stars, brachiopods, and a red shrimp

Small bamboo coral with black bands on branches, galatheid crab, and small gray sponges. Odd appearing smaller coral bushes as well.

Small bamboo coral with black bands on branches and smaller coral bush with polyps extended.

Small "black" coral bushes and brittle stars

Small "black" coral bushes and brittle stars

Delicate polyps and branches of small "black" coral bush.

An amphipod no longer than a pencil eraser clings to a low branch of this black coral on the Galapagos Rift.

A small octocoral bush growing in a field of pillow lavas being covered with sediment.

A small bluish white coral bush with polyps retracted. A feather star crinoid is making its home in its branches.

White bamboo coral and large white sea urchin

White bamboo coral with polyps extended and small shrimp

White bamboo coral with polyps extended

Small bamboo coral on a near vertical outcrop.

Small coral stalk with a brittle star and a black coral in the left background.

Small coral stalk attached to an angular volcanic rock boulder.

Small coral stalk attached to a pillow lava.

Small coral stalk growing from a sand and mud substrate.

Single stalk octocoral growing in an area of pillow lavas. A small red shrimp swims in the left center.

Single stalk octocoral growing from a sediment covered rock. Smaller corals are seen randomly spaced on the bottom in this image.

An octocoral whip coral beginning to wind into a spiral in an area of pillow lavas.

Antipatharian "black coral"

Antipatharian "black coral"

Closeup of polyps on antipatharian "black coral"

Antipatharian "black coral"

Antipatharian "black coral", red shrimp, and what appears to be a small white sponge.

Antipatharian "black coral" bush and small white bamboo corals bushes.

Antipatharian "black coral" on left and bamboo coral on right

Greenish blue sponge, white sponge, small white corals, and galatheid crab

A stalked Euplectellidae glass sponge.

A Euplectellidae glass sponge known as Venus flower basket.

A Euplectellidae glass sponge known as Venus flower basket.

A Euplectellidae glass sponge known as Venus flower basket.

A Euplectellidae glass sponge known as Venus flower basket.

Sponge on a rock outcrop

A white sponge on a rock outcrop

A stalked sponge on a sandy bottom

A white sponge growing from a a somewhat jumbled appearing sediment pile.

Three sponges growing on what appears to be a sediment covered rock. The tallest is a Venus flower basket sponge.

Two different species of sponges growing in close proximity. The tallest is a Venus flower basket sponge.

Three white sponges and a variety of corals.

Three white sponges growing on an old dead sponge.

Two white sponges growing in close proximity to an old dead sponge. Note the clear white feather duster worm to the right of the base of the sponges.

A variety of sponges and a large brittle star growing on sediment covered rock.

Sponges and small corals growing on a sediment draped rock