Carnivorous sponge - cladorhizid
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Description: English: Probably a carnivorous sponge, a cladorhizid. Original description from NOAA: 'This close-up could almost pass for a flower in your garden, but appears to be a sponge - probably a "carnivorous sponge" of the cladorhizids. Image captured by the ROV camera around 1000m depth.'. Date: 6 July 2010. Source: Okeanos Explorer: INDEX 2010 Exploration, NOAA. Author: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, INDEX-SATAL 2010.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Porifera (sponges)
- Demospongiae (demosponges)
- Heteroscleromorpha
- Poecilosclerida
- Cladorhizidae
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- NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, INDEX-SATAL 2010.
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- Okeanos Explorer: INDEX 2010 Exploration, NOAA.
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