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North Atlantic Stepping Stones 2005
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Tripod fish
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A surpisingly orange-colored halosaur over a black rock outcrop.
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A blue antimora (Antimora rostrata)
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Chimaera or rat fish (Chimaera monstrosa)
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False boarfish (Neocyttus helgae)
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Tripod fish or sometimes called spiderfish.
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Tripod fish or sometimes called spiderfish.
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A small Desmophyllum cup coral (scleractinian) growing off a boulder. This isthe species of coral that the expedition was looking for fossilized traces of as this type of coral has grown on these type of seamounts for over 20,000 years.
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Top view of a bamboo coral (Acanella) with a stalked crinoid. The crinoidmouth faces up and is surrounded by 10 feathered arms.
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Deep sea coral with brittle star attached and barnacle in upper branches.The gorgonian octocoral Paramuricea sp.
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The gorgonian octocoral Paramuricea. This coral invariably has a singleassociated brittle star wrapped in its branches.
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A colony of the bamboo coral Acanella (orange colored bush) shares a largerocky outcrop with other suspension feeders including a sponge, a yellow sealily, and a holothurian (red body with white feeding tentacles) at 1630 metersdepth. Currents move
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A brittle star (Ophiocreas) wraps its arms around the branches of aMetallogorgia coral. Note the eight extended tentacles on each polyp on theright side of the colony. The name Octocorallia' is derived from the eighttentacles.
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The beautiful spiral of the coral Iridogorgia.
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The beautiful spiral of the coral Iridogorgia showing the feeding polyps linedup on one side of the branches.
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The stony coral Enallopsammia. The white patches are areas where the coraltissue is dead (the underlying skeleton is white) and other animals, such asbarnacles and hydroids have settled.
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A glass sponge, referred to by the science party as a 'goblet sponge on a stick' at 1800 meters depth.
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Candidella? sp. with brittle stars
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A black coral with a golden crinoid and white sponge
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A black coral with bamboo whip corals and Paramuricea sp.
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