Image of sea pens
Description:
Description: Sea pen Pennatula phosphorea and a Porania pulvillus starfish
Item Type: Image
Title: Pennatula phosphorea
Species: Pennatula phosphorea, Porania pulvillus
Behaviour: The Porania pulvillus starfish appears to be feeding on the Sea pen Pennatula phosphorea
Site: Atlantic -- North Sea -- West of Shetland -- Laggan
North Sea -- West of Shetland -- Laggan
Site Description: Seafloor
Depth (m): 124
Latitude: 60 deg 29' 25" N
Longitude: 0 deg 55' 46" E
Countries: UK -- West of Shetland
Habitat: Benthic
Rig: Fugro Mercator
Project Partners: Total
ROV: Seaeye Tiger
Deposited By: Miss Moira MacLean
Deposited On: 29 October 2010
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life
- Cellular
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (animals)
- Cnidaria (cnidarians)
- Anthozoa (anemones and corals)
- Pennatulacea (sea pens)
- Pennatulidae
- Pennatula
- Pennatula phosphorea (luminescent sea-pen)
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