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Macro image made with 60 mm lens showing sea fans with brittle stars.
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The galatheoid crab Eumunida picta catches and consumes a squid.
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Atlantic roughy Hoplostethus occidentalis at the base of a large Leiopathesglabberima black coral colony
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Basket stars, crinoids, anemone, and crab on rock outcropping in Atwater Valleyregion in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Hyperoglyphe perciformis (barrel fish) in Lophelia reef habitat. Collectioncontainers on Jason's basket are seen on right.
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Callogorgia sp. octocoral with brittlestar (left) and purple soft corals (right) from Green Canyon region in the Gulf of Mexico.
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An example of the Mississippi Canyon 751 site where coral and coldseep habitats intersect. On the left is the gorgonian coral Callogorgiaamericana, which is a target species being used for genetic studies. On theright is a seep tubeworm colony.
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Callogorgia sp. octocorals from 300 meters in the Green Canyon region in theGulf of Mexico. Brittlestars are on the coral colony andJavania sp. cup corals are around the base.
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Lophelia pertusa, black coral (right), anemones, and squat lobster.
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Lophelia pertusa coral, with opened polyps, attached to an authigeniccarbonate rock. Seep-dependent tubeworms are visible behind the coral.
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Newly discovered Lophelia pertusa reef. Note live coral growth on top of deadcoral structure.
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Close-up of Lophelia pertusa calyx with polyp retracted.
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Madrepora oculata (close-up) showing calyx structure. Madrepora is one of thereef-building corals. Note characteristic zigzag pattern of this coral.
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Lophelia pertusa coral, with opened polyps, attached to an authigeniccarbonate rock.
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Photomosaic of Madrepora reef with surrounding clamshell debris(below and left) and Paramuricea gorgonians (soft corals) on the periphery.Mosaic is made up of approximately 70 images and area isapproximately 20 meters squared.
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Anemones on Lophelia conglomerate.
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Collected deep-sea shrimp (Bathypalaemonella) with soft coral (Chrysogorgia).
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Black coral (Leiopathes sp.) polyp. Note mouth and six tentacles.
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Collected brittle star, Asteroschema, with a parmuricid coral.
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The disc of this tiny brittlestar is 5 mm in diameter. Brittlestars of all sizesare common in deepwater coral communities including this small one found insurface sediments associated with Lophelia pertusa.
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