Image of Alcyoniidae Lamouroux 1812
Description:
Description: A community of soft corals, anemones, mussels and hydroids living on and around the bottom of the Heather Alpha platform in the North Sea
Item Type: Image
Title: Community of soft corals, anemones, mussels and hydroids in the North Sea
Species: Urticina sp., Mytilus edulis, Tubularia sp., Sagartia sp., Alcyonium digitatum, Echinus esculentus
Behaviour: Attached to subsea structure of rig
Site: Atlantic -- North Sea
North Sea
Site Description: Seafloor
Depth (m): approx 30
Countries: UK -- North Sea
Habitat: Temperate
Rig: Heather Alpha
Project Partners: Rovtech, Lundin Petroleum, iicorr
Deposited By: Rob Curry
Deposited On: 24 May 2007
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Cnidaria (cnidarians)
- Anthozoa (anemones and corals)
- Alcyonacea (soft corals)
- Alcyoniidae
- Alcyonium
- Alcyonium digitatum (Dead man’s fingers)
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