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Life on a fiord wall

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Life on a fiord wall

A butterfly perch swims past colonies of sponges and zooanthids (similar to sea anemones) covering an underwater rock wall.

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Paddy Ryan, Fiords – Underwater rock walls and basins, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/6340/life-on-a-fiord-wall (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Paddy Ryan, published 2 March 2009.