Image of Bathybiaster Danielssen & Koren 1883
Description:
Description: White asteroid sp. identified by Anna Dilman Institute of Oceanology, Academy of Sciences, Moscow (id on 26 June 2013)
Item Type: Image
Title: Bathybiaster vexillifer
Copyright: SERPENT project
Species: Bathybiaster vexillifer
Behaviour: Asteroid was disturbed by ROV and then it began to bury itself within the sediment over several minutes
Site: Atlantic -- North Sea -- West of Shetland -- Lagavulin
North Sea -- West of Shetland -- Lagavulin
Site Description: Seafloor
Depth (m): 1567
Latitude: 62 deg 39' 22" N
Longitude: 1 deg 07' 33" W
Countries: UK -- West of Shetland
Habitat: Benthic
Rig: Stena Carron
Project Partners: Chevron, Oceaneering
ROV: Magnum
Deposited By: Miss Moira MacLean
Deposited On: 19 November 2010
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
- Echinodermata (echinoderms)
- Asterozoa ("Starfish, brittle stars, and basket stars")
- Asteroidea (sea stars)
- Paxillosida
- Astropectinidae
- Bathybiaster
- Bathybiaster vexillifer
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