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Acesta clams, cup corals, a small dead coral (white) with numerous smallcrustaceans, and whitish pink octocoral

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Description

Acesta clams, cup corals, a small dead coral (white) with numerous smallcrustaceans, and whitish pink octocoral. Small serpulid worms are using both the rock canyon wall and the acesta clams as substrate.

Credit

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

Display Date

20130813T180602Z

Location

Lydonia Canyon, southwestern wall, 1236-1136m

Collection

Voyage to Inner Space

Ocean Exploration Collection

Modern Expeditions

2013 Northeast U. S. Canyons Expedition