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Crushed lobster left in the path of a scallop drag.Homarus americanus.
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Galatheid crabs are common burrow-dwellers on the continental slope.Munida iris.
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Octopus live in all oceans, including the muddy deep sea floor.
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A dense bed of brittle stars can get their food from the water or bottom.Ophiura sarsii.
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Soft corals, crinoids and sea pens need a hard spot for attachment.
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Delicate crinoid can orient towards the current to increase food capture.
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Sea anemones clustered on a rocky slope off Hawaii.
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Feather duster worms, a type of annelid worm, and more specifically, tube-dwelling polychaete worms. The arms are actually tentacles or radioles atthe anterior end of the worm. Most of the worms' bodies are hidden within thetubes they have construc
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Lobster tangled in a gillnet intended to capture cod and other groundfish.Homarus americanus.
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Sea anemones festoon a rocky outcrop off Alaska.
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Lobster works a pit in a shell bed.Homarus americanus.
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Portunid crab cowering at the base of a cerianthid anemone.Cerianthus borealis (anemone).
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Colorful fireworm projecting from a coral head has a sting if touched.
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Seastar doen't know what hit it -- arm of a NURP submersible.
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Hermit crabs are very particular about their shell homes.
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This sea snake is actually a vertebrate and in the wrong place in collection.
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Spiny lobster, unlike its northern relative, has no big crusher claw.Panulirus argus
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Junvenile lobster use weeds and sponges as refuge.
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Golden crabs are the largest crustacean on the continental slope off Florida.
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Starfish don't just have five arms-- this sun star has a dozen.
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