| 4550 |  |
Solitary stony cup coral with tentacles extended in feeding position. Image captured by the Little Hercules ROV at 600 meters depth on the Paramount seamounts. |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4551 |  |
Solitary cup coral with tentacles extended |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4552 |  |
Galatheid squat lobster on an Anthomastus coral. Image captured by the Little Hercules ROV at 600 meters depth on the Paramount seamounts. |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4553 |  |
White alcyonacean coral bush |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4554 |  |
White alcyonacean corals with small shrimp |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4555 |  |
Pennatulacean coral |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4556 |  |
Many armed Anthomastus coral |
2011 July 23 |
4557 |  |
This black coral, in addition to the two galatheid crabs weighing it down, possessed strange tendrils hanging in the water column, seemingly wrapped around its stalk. |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 13 |
4558 |  |
Antipatharian coral ("black coral") bush with galatheid crabs |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4559 |  |
Antipatharian coral ("black coral") bush |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4560 |  |
Small gorgonian coral and cup coral on rock surface |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4561 |  |
Close up on octocoral, likely a member of the family Primnoidae. Image captured by the Little Hercules ROV at 600 meters depth on the Paramount seamounts. |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4562 |  |
Closeup of white primnoid gorgonian octocoral polyps with anemones |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4563 |  |
Primnoid coral bush with anemones and galatheid crab |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4564 |  |
Description not available. |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4565 |  |
Description not available. |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4566 |  |
Description not available. |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4567 |  |
Description not available. |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4568 |  |
Description not available. |
2011 July 22 |
4569 |  |
Description not available. |
2011 July 22 |
4570 |  |
Description not available. |
2011 July 22 |
4571 |  |
Crab-octocoral symbiosis. Image captured by the Little Hercules ROV at 600 meters depth on the Paramount seamounts. |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4572 |  |
White stylaster? coral |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4573 |  |
Close-up of primnoid octocoral polyps |
2011 July 25 |
4574 |  |
Primnoid coral bush |
2011 July 25 |
4575 |  |
Octocoral polyps extended |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4576 |  |
Red gorgonian Corallium? sp. |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4577 |  |
Red gorgonian octocoral |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4578 |  |
White sparsely branched octocoral |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4579 |  |
White sparsely branched octocoral. Note small reddish spider-like creatures. |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4580 |  |
White sparsely branched octocoral |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4581 |  |
Yellow scleractinian? coral |
2011 July 25 |
4582 |  |
Description not available. |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 15 |
4583 |  |
Small white coral, brittle stars, brachiopods, and a red shrimp |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4584 |  |
Small bamboo coral with black bands on branches, galatheid crab, and small gray sponges. Odd appearing smaller coral bushes as well. |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4585 |  |
Small bamboo coral with black bands on branches and smaller coral bush with polyps extended. |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4586 |  |
Small "black" coral bushes and brittle stars |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4587 |  |
Small "black" coral bushes and brittle stars |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4588 |  |
Delicate polyps and branches of small "black" coral bush. |
Paramount Seamount 2011 July 14 |
4589 |  |
An amphipod no longer than a pencil eraser clings to a low branch of this black coral on the Galapagos Rift. |
2011 July 22 |
4590 |  |
Description not available. |
2011 July 23 |
4591 |  |
Description not available. |
2011 July 24 |
4592 |  |
White bamboo coral and large white sea urchin |
2011 July 24 |
4593 |  |
White bamboo coral with polyps extended and small shrimp |
2011 July 21 |
4594 |  |
White bamboo coral with polyps extended |
2011 July 21 |
4595 |  |
Description not available. |
2011 July 22 |
4596 |  |
Description not available. |
2011 July 24 |
4597 |  |
Description not available. |
2011 July 21 |
4598 |  |
Description not available. |
2011 July 21 |
4599 |  |
Description not available. |
2011 July 24 |
