~1mm length. Caught by light trap.
See project description here: https://sentinels.hakai.org/approaches/light-traps
Specimen collected on the Northeast Pacific Deep-sea Expedition in May to June 2023. Look below for a link to the collection video, and check out the expedition website for more info at https://www.oceannetworks.ca/expeditions/northeast-pacific-deep-sea-expedition/
Credit: Ocean Networks Canada / Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility
With Shabobit Mounir
The cnidarian, not the ophiuroid.
The ophiuroid (Asteronyx loveni) usually lives clinging to this cnidarian.
Exceptionnelle dans les chaluts à crevettes à 265 mètres de profondeur.
Lab photo from specimen collected with permit.
Observations made by the Biodiversity Ilo team from the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) & the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles (NHMLA). Photos by Jessica Whelpley (FLMNH), Brittany Cummings (FLMNH), Leslie Harris (NHMLA), CC-BY-NC-SA, credit to Biodiversity-Ilo
shallow silt/mud bottom by dock
Located in the first 30 cm of marine mud
Amundsen 2023, leg 3, station 134 with Beam Trawl
Amundsen 2023, leg 3, station 134 with Beam Trawl
Attached to old groundline brought up from approximately 60 fathoms.
Flipped under rock at low tide, bar Island
Captured at 70 meters depth on Georges Bank during DFO Maritimes Winter Survey aboard the CCGS Cabot.
Captured at 70 meters depth on Georges Bank during DFO Maritimes Winter Bottom Trawl Survey aboard the CCGS Cabot. Captured an interesting individual that appears to be a fully leucistic specimen! Could also be a juvenile winter skate, specimen was not kept. Typically specimens under 40 cm are lumped together into L.erinaceus/L.occelatus unless obvious signs of L.erinaceus are present (I.e. rough patch near anus on females, or large pronounced sex organs on males).
Identified by Dr. Neil Bruce. Found attached to caudal peduncle of juvenile tarwhine.
Image taken by Julian Uribe-Palomino
Specimen collected on the Northeast Pacific Deep-sea Expedition in May to June 2023. Look below for a link to the collection video, and check out the expedition website for more info at https://www.oceannetworks.ca/expeditions/northeast-pacific-deep-sea-expedition/
Observed on the Northeast Pacific Deep-sea Expedition in May to June 2023. Look below for a link to the observation video, and check out the expedition website for more info at https://www.oceannetworks.ca/expeditions/northeast-pacific-deep-sea-expedition/
After large storms this weekend there were 100s of these stars on the rocky beach. A few were still alive (barely) but most were dead. I've never seen them on the beach before.
Credit: Ocean Networks Canada / Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility
Embedded in the mud and pebble of the Zostera bed here, this is the only dive site in Cape Ann where I have observed this species in shallow water
These corals were photographed and identified by the late Mr. Hans Ditlev, MSc (1946-2013) who was a coral specialist educated and working at Aarhus University, Denmark. These reported observations (c. 550 species, over 3.900 photos) are parts of his lifetime work with scleractinian taxonomy. Important parts of his collections are deposited at Phuket Marine Biological Center, Thailand; and Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia.
The corals are carefully identified by this expert in taxonomy and have a geographic position. The nomenclature follows WoRMS (marinespecies.org). However, the dates of collection or photographs are usually not given. The date is therefore arbitrarily set to 1. January 2000 to make it possible to enter them in iNaturalist. The high quality of the photos as well as the careful identification of a real specialist makes them valuable as references and will also, hopefully, contribute to the improvement of the AI system for Automated Image Recognition in iNaturalist. These photos are uploaded to iNaturalist with permission from Hans Ditlev’s wife, Mrs. Else Ditlev, Hornslet, Denmark.
Hans Ditlev published the book “A field-guide to the reef-building corals of the Indo-Pacific” in 1980. After that, he worked on a revision of this book, as he understood the importance of literature for identification as fundamentally important for work in ecology, evolution, conservation etc. His too early death motivated two colleagues to try to complete his work which resulted in the books “Indo-Pacific corals identified and illustrated by Hans Ditlev” by Jørgen Hylleberg & Tomas Cedhagen as authors; vol 1: viii+406 pp. 2015, Thailand National Science Museum; and vol 2: xxii+374 pp. 2018, Phuket Marine Biological Center. Hans Ditlev published scientific articles and described some new coral taxa.