Image of Notostomum
Description:
Description: Leeches rest on the seabed after feeding on fishes (Notostomum sucks the blood of rays and eelpouts).
Up to 200 mm long
Item Type: Image
Title: Notostomum laeve
Species: Notostomum laeve
Site: Atlantic -- North Sea -- West of Shetland
North Sea -- West of Shetland
Site Description: Seafloor
Depth (m): 1156
Latitude: 61 deg 16' 00" N
Longitude: 2 deg 59' 00" E
Countries: UK -- West of Shetland
Rig: Leiv Eiriksson
Project Partners: Shell
ROV: Magnum 105 and Magnum 146
Deposited By: Dr Daniel Jones
Deposited On: 09 May 2014
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Spiralia (spiralians)
- Annelida (segmented worms)
- Sedentaria
- Clitellata (earthworms, leeches, and relatives)
- Hirudinea (leeches)
- Euhirudinea
- Rhynchobdellida
- Piscicolidae
- Notostomum
- Notostomum laeve
This image is not featured in any collections.
Source Information
- license
- cc-by-nc-sa-3.0
- copyright
- SERPENT Media Archive Project
- original
- original media file
- visit source
- partner site
- SERPENT Project
- ID
