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A cirrate octopus floats like a bell in mid-water, feeding on plankton

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Description

A cirrate octopus floats like a bell in mid-water, feeding on plankton.

Credit

OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP); North Carolina State University

Photographer

T. Schaff

Display Date

1989 September

Location

Temperate Atlantic Ocean, offshore Cape Hatteras.

Category

Voyage to Inner Space
National Undersea Research Program (NURP) Collection
Sea Life
Midwater Invertebrates