Image of Forcipulatida Perrier 1884
Description:
Description: Brittle star Ophiura albida with a starfish Asterias rubens in close proximity
Item Type: Image
Title: Ophiura albida
Species: Ophiura albida, Asterias rubens
Behaviour: Both species are on the surface of the sediment but there are track marks in the sediment suggesting that these animals have been moving through the field of view
Site: Atlantic -- North Sea -- West of Shetland -- Laggan
North Sea -- West of Shetland -- Laggan
Site Description: Seafloor
Depth (m): 46
Latitude: 60 deg 32' 01" N
Longitude: 1 deg 13' 55" E
Countries: UK -- West of Shetland
Rig: Fugro Mercator
Project Partners: Total
ROV: Seaeye Tiger
Deposited By: Miss Moira MacLean
Deposited On: 19 October 2010
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
- Echinodermata (echinoderms)
- Asterozoa ("Starfish, brittle stars, and basket stars")
- Asteroidea (sea stars)
- Forcipulatida
- Asteriidae
- Asterias
- Asterias rubens (Common sea star)
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