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Large colony of imperial cormorants, Phalacrocorax atriceps, gathered on rocky ground with nests in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.

Figure 33: (Top) A colony of three species of sponges, approximately three-quarters of life size. At top of colony is a small bread-crumb sponge (Halichondria); branching mass at right is leucosolenia complicata; tubular sponges on left are Scypha cilia

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