Euplectella Okeanos
Description:
Description: English: An hexactinellid "glass" sponge (probably Euplectella) observed in the abyss by the NOAA Okeanos Explorer mission "2017 American Samoa Expedition: Suesuega o le Moana o Amerika Samoa". Seen with symbiotic shrimp, and surrounded by commensal benthic ctenophores and brittlestars. Date: 17 March 2017. Source: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/media/exstream/exstream.html. Author: NOAA Okeanos Explorer.
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Porifera (sponges)
- Hexactinellida (hexactinellid sponges)
- Hexasterophora
- Lyssacinosida
- Euplectellidae
- Euplectellinae
- Euplectella
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- cc-publicdomain
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- NOAA Okeanos Explorer
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- http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/media/exstream/exstream.html
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