Description: Strange bathyal crustacean found living in soft sediment. Probably uses long claws to dig out polychaetes from burrows. Item Type: Image Title: Polycheles crustacean Species: Polycheles sp. Behaviour: usually found burrowing in seabed. Swims up when disturbed by ROV Site: Atlantic -- Northern Tropical Atlantic -- Tiof Site Description: Seafloor Depth (m): 1324 Latitude: 17 deg 57' 05" N Longitude: 16 deg 51' 49" W Countries: West Africa -- Mauritania Rig: Boa Deep C Project Partners: Woodside, Oceaneering ROV: Millenium 22 Deposited By: Dr Daniel Jones Deposited On: 29 January 2010
Polycheles baccata, one of the Eryonidae.. Eyes and eye-stalks are absent, and the margin and sides of the carapace armed with spines (After Spence Bate)
Description: Strange bathyal crustacean found living in soft sediment. Probably uses long claws to dig out polychaetes from burrows. Item Type: Image Title: Polycheles crustacean Species: Polycheles sp. Behaviour: usually found burrowing in seabed. Swims up when disturbed by ROV Site: Atlantic -- Northern Tropical Atlantic -- Tiof Site Description: Seafloor Depth (m): 1324 Latitude: 17 deg 57' 05" N Longitude: 16 deg 51' 49" W Countries: West Africa -- Mauritania Rig: Boa Deep C Project Partners: Woodside, Oceaneering ROV: Millenium 22 Deposited By: Dr Daniel Jones Deposited On: 29 January 2010
Description: Strange bathyal crustacean found living in soft sediment. Probably uses long claws to dig out polychaetes from burrows. Item Type: Image Title: Polycheles crustacean Species: Polycheles sp. Behaviour: usually found burrowing in seabed. Swims up when disturbed by ROV Site: Atlantic -- Northern Tropical Atlantic -- Tiof Site Description: Seafloor Depth (m): 1324 Latitude: 17 deg 57' 05" N Longitude: 16 deg 51' 49" W Countries: West Africa -- Mauritania Rig: Boa Deep C Project Partners: Woodside, Oceaneering ROV: Millenium 22 Deposited By: Dr Daniel Jones Deposited On: 29 January 2010
Description: Strange bathyal crustacean found living in soft sediment. Probably uses long claws to dig out polychaetes from burrows. Item Type: Image Title: Polycheles crustacean Species: Polycheles sp. Behaviour: usually found burrowing in seabed. Swims up when disturbed by ROV Site: Atlantic -- Northern Tropical Atlantic -- Tiof Site Description: Seafloor Depth (m): 1324 Latitude: 17 deg 57' 05" N Longitude: 16 deg 51' 49" W Countries: West Africa -- Mauritania Rig: Boa Deep C Project Partners: Woodside, Oceaneering ROV: Millenium 22 Deposited By: Dr Daniel Jones Deposited On: 29 January 2010