Video of Giant Isopods
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Description: Bathynomus giganteus (Giant Isopod) feeding on some bait. A specimen obtained in a trap shortly after this video was taken was identified as Bathynomus giganteus/ Milne-Edwards, 1879 (Isopoda,Cirolaridae) common for the Atlantic and reported previously for Venezuela.
It was identified by the muesum in Caracas, Venezuela.
Item Type: Video
Title: Bathynomus giganteus - Giant Isopod
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Species: Bathynomus giganteus
Behaviour: Feeding on some bait on the seafloor.
Site: Atlantic -- Venezuelan Basin
Site Description: Seafloor
Depth (m): 543
Latitude: 9 deg 44' 07" N
Longitude: 59 deg 44' 60" W
Countries: South America -- Venezuela
Habitat: Seafloor
Rig: Transocean Sovereign Explorer
Project Partners: Statoil, Transocean, Subsea 7
ROV: Centurion 38 HD
Deposited By: Dr Daniel Jones
Deposited On: 02 February 2010
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Ecdysozoa (ecdysozoans)
- Arthropoda (arthropods)
- Pancrustacea
- Multicrustacea (typical crustaceans)
- Malacostraca (malacostracans)
- Eumalacostraca
- Peracarida (peracarids)
- Isopoda (isopods)
- Cymothooidea
- Cirolanidae (cirolanid isopods)
- Bathynomus (Giant Isopods)
- Bathynomus giganteus (Giant Isopod)
- Panarthropoda
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