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The lovely slit shell, Perotrochus amabilis, inhabits a rubble strewn areabetween 850 and 700 feet depth along the Tennessee Bioherm 1, a mound thatextends from the sea bottom at a depth of 1,000 feet to within 550 feet of thesurface

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The lovely slit shell, Perotrochus amabilis, inhabits a rubble strewn areabetween 850 and 700 feet depth along the Tennessee Bioherm 1, a mound thatextends from the sea bottom at a depth of 1,000 feet to within 550 feet of thesurface.

Credit

Brooke et al., NOAA-OER, HBOI.; Florida Coast Deep Corals Expedition 2005

Display Date

2005 November 19

Location

Florida Straits

Collection

Voyage to Inner Space

Keywords

Ocean Exploration