Rhinochimaera

Rhinochimaera

Description

A Rhinochimaera from Nigeria. Pictures taken at 11.41 am.

Item Type:Image
Title:Rhinochimaera
Creator(s):Rob, Curry
Identification:Chris, Rawlins
Date:05 April 2008
Time:10.20 am
Copyright:SERPENT
Classification:Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata (Chordates) > Class Actinopterygii (Ray finned Fish) > Chimaeriformes (Chimaeras) > Rhinochimaeridae (Longnose chimaeras)
Species:Rhinochimaera sp
Behaviour:Swimming near subsea rig structures
Site:Atlantic > Central Atlantic
Site Description:Seafloor, Equipment
Depth (m):1337.8
Northing:344620.7
Easting:594890.2
Countries:West Africa > Nigeria
Habitat:Benthic
Substratum:Deep sea mud
Rig:Saipem FDS
Project Partners:Total
ROV:Sonsub Innovator 4
Keywords:Longnosed Chimaera
Deposited By:Mr Rob Curry
Deposited On:16 April 2008

Repository Staff Only: edit this item


Citation

In any downloading or consulting of the data from this website, the visitor acknowledges that he/she agrees to the following:
If data are extracted from this website for secondary analysis resulting in publication, the website should be cited as follows:

Jones, D.O.B., Gates, A.R., Curry, R.A., Thomson, M., Pile, A., Benfield, M. (Eds) (2009). SERPENT project. Media database archive. Available online at accessed on

If any data constitutes a substantial proportion of the records used in secondary analysis, the authors/managers of the database should be contacted. In any case, there are additional data which may prove valuable to such analyses.

SERPENT Image and Video Archive is running on GNU EPrints repository-creating software, which generates eprints repositories that are compliant with the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting OAI 1.1 and 2.0.

The GNU EPrints repository-creating software is available for free at http://software.eprints.org/.

More information is available about the repository.

EPrints.org