A good sized synallactid cuke at 5358 m with a lil' worm friend! North abyss 3, Cook Island #okeanos
Chris Mah
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The "starfish guy"(but also a little about a lot of marine invertebrates, #echinoday #echinoderms. Kaiju, comics enthusiast. Marine scientist, taxonomist, deep-sea researcher. Statements/posts made here are my own & DO NOT REPRESENT HOST organizations
ACORN WORM with guts in full view! transparent #wormwednesday northern abyss Cook islands 5360 m #okeanos
Two amphipods hanging out on the stalk of this cladorhizid/carnivorous sponge! #okeanos about 5400m northern abyss Cook Islands
Lovely closeup of this SEA PIG! family Elpidiidae about 5400m Northern Abyss 3, Cook Islands #Okeanos right NOW!
Swima, the "green bomber" worm, swims the deep sea trailing glowing green globes it can detach and drop when threatened, like tossing a flare to distract a predator and flee into the dark. A worm that throws light bombs. 🧪 #WormWednesday #marinelife www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUqY...
Weird and Wonderful: Green bomber worms drop bioluminescent "bombs"
YouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
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Not crinoid. That's a giant solitary hydroid 5324m @nautiluslive.org dive on 7.28.26 #MarineLife
That's a cool medusa (depth not available) @nautiluslive.org dive on 7.29.26 #MarineLife
Great Swima image @nautiluslive.org dive on 7.29.26 #MarineLife
While #Okeanos personnel have a fantastic discussion with the PRIME MINISTER of the Cook Islands! here was a cool scale worm at about 5590 m ! #wormwednesday! Some cool tentacles extended!
#WormWednesday New extra-big earthworm from Madagascar @zookeys.pensoft.net Genus is endemic Kynotus insularis Csuzdi et al doi.org/10.3897/zook...
Lovely to find under stones in the River Little Ouse headwaters at Blo' Norton, groups of Milk-White Planaria Dendrocoelum lacteum (Flatworms) as well as abundant leeches eg ?Glossiphonia complanata & ?Duck Leech (Theromyzon tessulatum). #wormwednesday #invertebrate #ukwildlife #nature #rivers 12/19
The sea mouse is not a mouse. It's a chunky marine worm covered in felt-like hair that diffracts light into shifting reds, blues, and golds, some of the best natural photonics we know of. A brown lump on the seafloor that turns into a rainbow when the light hits right. #WormWednesday #marinelife
oh WEIRD! A cool association which is apparently a REGULAR THING! Cladorhizid-carnivorous sponge with a SEA ANEMONE attached. Doing double team captures! 5435ish m Cook Islands, northern abyss 2 #okeanos
Smaller but perhaps the same type of sea pig but white and more transparent.. the gut is quite clear-showing off that sediment poop! #okeanos 5438ish m Cook Islands northern abyss 2
POOP SPIRAL and leftover mucous from a recent acorn worm! #okeanos 5440ish m Cook Islands, Northern Abyss 2
Whoa. A VERY deep, very small isopod.. perhaps a munnopsid? at about 5600 m #okeanos northern abyss 2, Cook Island
