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Beautiful hanging gardens of Lydonia Canyon with a highly diverse faunalassemblage

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Description

Beautiful hanging gardens of Lydonia Canyon with a highly diverse faunalassemblage. Encrusting sponges, Solenosmilia variabilis coral, an acesta clam, small purple octorals, small white serpulid tube worms, cup corals and squatlobsters. Small white octocorals can be seen in the right center of the image.

Credit

NOAA OKEANOS Explorer Program , 2013 Northeast U. S. Canyons Expedition

Display Date

20130813T160012Z

Location

Lydonia Canyon, southwestern wall, 1236-1136m

Collection

Voyage to Inner Space
Ocean Exploration Collection
Modern Expeditions
2013 Northeast U. S. Canyons Expedition