Image of caryophylliid corals
Description:
Description: A colony of Lophelia pertusa living on a riser at the Thistle platform in the North Sea
Item Type: Image
Title: Lophelia living on a riser in the North Sea
Species: Lophelia pertusa, Caryophyllia smithii
Behaviour: Living on riser
Site: Atlantic -- North Sea
North Sea
Site Description: Seafloor
Depth (m): 165
Countries: UK -- North Sea
Habitat: Temperate
Rig: Thistle A Platform
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)
- Scleractinia (stony corals)
- Caryophylliidae (caryophylliid corals)
- Caryophyllia (cupcorals)
- Caryophyllia smithii (Devonshire cup coral)
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