2009-6-21 01:30 PM
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[align=center]A jellyfish, Aequorea macrodactyla[/align]
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[align=center]A lobate ctenophore (Bathycyroe fosteri) which is very common and abundant near the mid-Atlantic ridge. (5 cm tall)[/align]
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[align=center]The Census for Marine Life, a global network of researchers in more than 80 nations, estimates that about 230,000 species of marine animals have been described, and that there could be a total of between 500,000 and 10 million species in the sea[/align]
[align=center][b]Megaleledone setebos, a shallow-water circum-Antarctic species endemic to the Southern Ocean[/b][/align]
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[align=center]Diacria trispinosa (pteropod)[/align]
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[align=center]A deepwater copepod, Eaugaptilis hyperboreus, bearing its eggs[/align]
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[align=center]File clam, Lima sp.[/align]
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[align=center]Hippopodius hippopus. One of the swimming bells in this colonial siphonophore has broken way from the colony and resembles a human mask[/align]
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[align=center]A swimming snail (Limacina helicinia) that lives in both Arctic and Antarctic waters[/align]
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[align=center]A nemertean pelagonemertes rollestoni hunting for zooplankton prey that it will harpoon with a dart attached to the tongue coiled within it. Its yellow stomach reaches out to feed all parts of the body[/align]
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[align=center]Pohls sea urchins found off Lizard Island[/align]
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[align=center]Oxygyrus keraudreni. Unlike its relative the pteropods that ¡§fly¡¨ through the water like a bird, this heteropod uses its flattened foot like a paddle to push it through the water. Unlike most other pelagic snails the shell is made of cartilage[/align]
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[align=center]Phronima sedentaria (female) caught between 50 and 200m. Amphipod known as a pram bug[/align]
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[align=center]Pyrosomella verticilliata - a type of colonial tunicate (sea-squirt)[/align]
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[align=center]Sabellids or fan worms[/align]
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[align=center]Thalassocalyce (ctenophone - comb jelly)[/align]