Deep-sea amphipod
SKU 29370 Categories Deep-sea Animals, Deep-sea Invertebrates, Hydrothermal Vent Animals Tags alien, Amphipoda, Arthropoda, Crustacea, Deep-sea amphipod, eusirid amphipod, Eusiridae, face-hugger, glass sponge, hydrothermal vents, Malacostraca, pink, spiny
Image ID: | 29370 |
Common Name: | Deep-sea amphipod |
Scientific Name: | Eusirid Amphipod |
Description: | Comb jelly and copepod prey. Jellies make up an important part of coastal and oceanic food webs. |
Location: | This extraordinary eusirid amphipod, reptililian in appearance, was collected from a glass sponge growing 2.5 kilometres deep in the eastern Pacific. It was living near hydrothermal vents and measured about an inch. |
Keywords: | Deep-sea amphipod, eusirid amphipod, glass sponge, hydrothermal vents, Arthropoda, Crustacea, Malacostraca, Amphipoda, Eusiridae, face-hugger, alien, spiny, pink |
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