Two further slit shells, Pleurotamariids from Puerto Rico, 283m or thereabouts, Vieques Island seen by #Okeanos in 2018 during the Oceando Profundo expedition #molluscmonday
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@echinoblog.bsky.socialTwo further slit shells, Pleurotamariids from Puerto Rico, 283m or thereabouts, Vieques Island seen by #Okeanos in 2018 during the Oceando Profundo expedition #molluscmonday
@echinoblog.bsky.socialA pleurotamariid "slit shell" snail at 262 m from Pichincho Wall East, Puerto Rico during the 2018 #Okeanos Oceando Profundo expedition EX1811 #mollucmonday
@echinoblog.bsky.socialoh WOW! A Giant Anemone, 20-30 cm across! from 2016 Wake Island! #okeanos youtu.be/4NldINzR8IA?...
@echinoblog.bsky.socialdecent pic of the carnivorous clam seen by #Okeanos last week at about 5834 m. Hugh MacIntosh Identifies it as "probably Policordia, in the family Lyonsiellidae. They have a big inhalant siphon with a hood that they evert, then suck back in during prey capture." #molluscmonday
@echinoblog.bsky.socialAnother incredibly elongate deep-sea stalked sponge! at 3093 m, east basin seamount, American Samoa #spongeThursday #Okeanos
@echinoblog.bsky.socialYes. there are barnacles at 3100 meters! please make a note of it! #Okeanos east basin seamount, American Samoa
@echinoblog.bsky.socialA fallen glass sponge showing off its holdfast! yes. glass fibers! very much like fiber optic cable! #spongeThursday #okeanos 3115 m east basin seamount, American Samoa
@echinoblog.bsky.socialA cool looking brittle star with a purple disk! We've seen quite a few of these so far! at about 3115 m, east basin seamount, American Samoa, #Okeanos
@echinoblog.bsky.socialOH WOW. A collection of NEOPILINA! A monoplacophoran! Collected by #Okeanos before in 2017,. east seamount, American Samoa #molluscmonday link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@echinoblog.bsky.socialA distinctively red synallactid sea cucumber, at about 3150 m eastern basin seamount, American Samoa, #Okeanos
@echinoblog.bsky.socialA brisingid, Freyella at 3175 m, east basin seamount, American Samoa with arms raised into the water to feed! #Okeanos
@echinoblog.bsky.socialAnother impressively large Saccocalyx stalked glass sponge, 3170 m east basin seamount, American Samoa #okeanos #spongeThursday
@echinoblog.bsky.socialStalked glass sponge, Caulophacus, 3190 m east basin seamount, American Samoa #spongeThursday #okeanos
@echinoblog.bsky.socialA synallactid sea cucumber with translucent body, a bunch of tentacle twitching and a gut showing off its incipient poop! #Okeanos 3198 m east basin seamount, American Samoa
@echinoblog.bsky.socialA foraminferan test! 3185 m, east basin seamount, American samoa #Okeanos
@echinoblog.bsky.socialA lovely white sea anemone at 3210 m! east basin seamount, American Samoa #Okeanos
@echinoblog.bsky.socialA feather star hanging onto this big sponge stalk! 3215 m #okeanos east basin seamount, American Samoa
@echinoblog.bsky.socialWow. A Caulophacus glass sponge, 10 FEET LONG! #okeanos east basin American Samoa, 3214 mor so
@echinoblog.bsky.socialSPONGE ON SPONGE action! Poliopagon growing on this dead sponge stalk, 3215 m east basin, seamount, American Samoa #Okeanos
@kbyip.bsky.socialLast dive of this Okeanos Explorer expedition EX2606. Diving on a seamount only mapped this morning south of Muliāva (Rose Atoll). Currently at 3233m. Dive planned to be on-bottom until ~10:30pm PDT - long last dive! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqCq... #Okeanos
