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The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species: #8 Red Lure Jellyfish
#8: Erenna sp. (Phylum: Cnidaria, Class: Hydrozoa, Order: Siphonophorae, Family:Agalmatidae ) Roxanne..You don’t have to put on the red light..Those days are over…You don’t have…
View More The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species: #8 Red Lure JellyfishThe 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #10: Echinothuriid Sea Urchins
You have to go to Echinoblog for #10 because who better to write about echinoderms than Doc Echinoderm. The quick and dirty of why these…
View More The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #10: Echinothuriid Sea UrchinsThe 27 Best Deep-Sea Species: #11 Venus's Flower Basket
#11 Euplectella sp (Phylum: Porifera, Class: Hexactenellida, Family: Euplectellidae) [This Post is brought to you by Amanda Kahn a graduate student at Moss Landing Marine…
View More The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species: #11 Venus's Flower BasketThe 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #12: Yeti Crab
YETI YETI YETI!!!! #12 Kiwa hirsuta (Phylum: Arthropoda, Class: Malacostraca, Order: Decapoda, Family: Kiwaidae) Now imagine doing the Yeti Stomp (I heart Backyardigans!) in…
View More The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #12: Yeti Crab27 Best Deep-Sea Species: #13 Deep-sea corals
Of all the deep-sea animals, deep-sea corals have got to be the most interesting because they are iconic, and useful to a variety of disciplines,…
View More 27 Best Deep-Sea Species: #13 Deep-sea coralsThe 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #14: Alviniconcha, the Hairy Vent Snail
Photo on left courtesy of C.Fisher/Ridge2000. Photo on the right from Linda Zelnio. #14 Alviniconcha hessleri (Phylum: Mollusca, Class: Gastropoda, Order: Sorbeoconcha, Family: Provannidae) Hairy…
View More The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #14: Alviniconcha, the Hairy Vent Snail27 Best Deep-Sea Species #15: Spookfish Rhinochimaera pacifica
Nothing says Halloween like a Spookfish. Rhinochimeara pacifica has the savage proboscis of a sawfish without the savage teeth, which makes it even stranger to…
View More 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #15: Spookfish Rhinochimaera pacifica27 Best Deep-Sea Species #16: Red-eyed gaper Chaunax
Meet the red-eyed gaper, Chaunax sp., more commonly known as "by-catch" in commercial fishery operations. Gapers are Lophiformes, in the anglerfish group, with big heads,…
View More 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #16: Red-eyed gaper Chaunax27 Best Deep-Sea Species #17: Tripod fish Bathypterois
The only thing more absurd than a fish walking on stilts is a fish walking on stilts with a rubber chicken, I always say. The…
View More 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #17: Tripod fish Bathypterois