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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, acesta clams, small purple octorals, small white serpulid tube worms, cup corals and squatlobsters. From a distance, less of the smaller fauna can be seen as compared toexpn0303.

Credit

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

Display Date

20130813T160204Z

Location

Lydonia Canyon, southwestern wall, 1236-1136m

Collection

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