Marrus sp.
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@noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social check out the amazing zooms on this Lobate Ctenophore! Epic flying, Pilots!
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Slightly confused Hatchetfish
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Apolemia
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Tomopteris & Chuniphyes
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🦑 Meet Planctoteuthis sp.! 🦑

According to #SamplingGap Co-chief sci Dr. Perez:
“Images have finally enabled the description of this tail, but no one knows what it is used for. It looks like a siphonophore from a distance, and one hypothesis is that it could be used for siphonophore mimicry.”

The Taningia danae followed & grabbed SuBastian!!! Heck ya!
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Woohoo a brief Taningia danae sighting. It even lit up!
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Bunch of sponges & Argonaut brood case
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Wow is that a ton of little Anemones? They're covering every cm of these rocks!
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They aren't sure what that is but it sure looks like the long flowing oral arms of a Stygiomedusa to me. Wonder where the rest of it would be? @georgeimatsumoto.bsky.social what do you think?
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Synaphobranchid
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Pycnogonid climbing a dead coral. Wonder what was so interesting up there? @andyantarctica.bsky.social another friend for ya.
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Pycnogonid, Urchin, Bamboo corals, Skate eggs
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Sponge, Ophidiidae, Black Coral, pink coral with purple Stolonifera?, dea star, Sponge
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Benthic Siphonophore
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Ophidiidae w/ a isopod parasite
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Cusk eel in a sponge, star maybe Myxasteridae?, yellow coral, yellow sponge, tube worms
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