I saw four or five on this dive. I wonder if they are nocturnal...
30 meters. We saw two colonies, and they are rare exciting for me so I made observations for both
http://actiniaria.com/cribrinopsis_rubens.php
as opposed to
http://actiniaria.com/cribrinopsis_fernaldi.php
20 meters down
the jelly, not the arthropod. Arthropod observation at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/228303476
The first one on iNat? 70 feet.
I believe this is Henricia multispina, but it's not in the iNat database and I can't add it until the City Nature challenge is over.
scanned slide
Very high density of sunflower stars in the shallow subtidal zone. This all changed drastically in September 2013 when Sea Star Wasting Syndrome killed every last one in only a few weeks.
Brought up in a net from about 20 ft
I am SO EXCITED to have seen my favorite fish of all time here in Sitka! Finally!
I think
Found inside a chinook salmon stomach.
Another salmon had more (approx. 20) in its' stomach but a gull stole it while I was running inside to get a Ziploc.
Attached to small coho salmon
Parasitic copepod on Antiopella
Tentative ID based on morphotype and abyssal habitat.
ROV ROPOS
Dive R1653
ROV ROPOS
Dive R1659
Depth range: 200-300m
Zooplankton tow (MOCHNESS)
Parasite found attached to a Silver Surfperch. Small black dots for eyes on its top side.
These large anemones were trawled from a depth below 200 m in Howe Sound. They have distinctive hard knobs in the column and were given the common name hobnail anemones. These may be Actinostola faeculenta. The anemone at 10 o'clock is something different.
Specimen observed on the Northeast Pacific Deep-Sea Diversity Expedition in June 2022. Look below for a link to the observation video, and check out the website at https://www.oceannetworks.ca/expeditions/northeast-pacific-deep-sea-diversity-expedition/
Specimen collected on the Northeast Pacific Deep-Sea Diversity Expedition in June 2022. Look below for a link to the collection video, and check out the website at https://www.oceannetworks.ca/expeditions/northeast-pacific-deep-sea-diversity-expedition/
Sea Pig collected on the Northeast Pacific Deep-Sea Diversity Expedition in June 2022. Look below for a link to the collection video, and check out the expedition website at https://www.oceannetworks.ca/expeditions/northeast-pacific-deep-sea-diversity-expedition/
Specimen collected on the Northeast Pacific Deep-Sea Diversity Expedition in June 2022. Look below for a link to the collection video, and check out the website at https://www.oceannetworks.ca/expeditions/northeast-pacific-deep-sea-diversity-expedition/