For videos of coral communities, visit the Video Gallery. For a set of videos from expeditions to explore canyons and seamounts, go to the Video Gallery. This page displays a restricted variety of pictures from expeditions lately led or supported by NOAA Ocean Exploration. The photographs on this gallery supply a snapshot of a few of the fish encountered throughout expeditions. To view photographs on a selected subject material, click on on one of many filters below. While the term "coral" could conjure up images of sunny tropical reefs in warm, shallow waters, over half of all identified coral species actually stay in deep, darkish waters. Within the deep ocean, nearly all of vertebrates, or animals with backbones, that we encounter are fish, ranging from important industrial species similar to snapper and grouper to sharks and rays, anglerfish, cusk eels, and many others. While these fish are often top predators within the deep and are essential components of the deep-sea meals net, information about how deep-sea fish dwell is limited, as it is troublesome to make direct observations of those organisms.

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