Colus sp.

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Aggreation on the seabed of two gastropod molluscs, Colus sp. The aggreation is on a cluster of mussels Mytilus edulis which have most liklely fallen off the rig. There is also a asteroid starfish Crossaster sp. and a Shrimp Pandalus sp.

Item Type:	Image
Title:	Colus sp.
Creator(s):	MacLean, M.
Identification:	MacLean, M.
Date:	08 October 2006
Copyright:	SERPENT project
Classification:	Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods) > Class Malacostraca (Crabs, krill, pill bugs, shrimps, prawns) > Order Decapoda (Crabs, lobsters, prawns, shrimps) > Family Pandalidae (Shrimps), Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca (Molluscs) > Class Gastropoda (Gastropods) > Order Neogastropoda (Conches) > Family Buccinidae (Buccinid Whelks), Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca (Molluscs) > Class Bivalvia (Bivalves) > Order Mytiloida (Mussels) > Family Mytilidae (Mussels)
Species:	Colus sp., Mytilus edulis, Crossaster sp., Pandalus sp.
Behaviour:	Feeding aggregation
Site:	Atlantic > North Sea > West of Shetland > Faroe-Shetland Channel > Brugdan North Sea > West of Shetland > Faroe-Shetland Channel > Brugdan
Site Description:	Seafloor
Depth (m):	480
Countries:	Faroe Islands
Habitat:	Benthic
Substratum:	Sand and Gravel
Rig:	Stena Don
Project Partners:	Statoil, Oceaneering
ROV:	Magnum 070, Sea Owl 590
Keywords:	Brugdan West of Sheltand Faroe-Shetland Channel Atlantic Benthic Mussels Mytilus edulis Gastropod colus sp. Asteroid starfish crossaster sp. Shrimp pandalus sp.
Deposited By:	Miss Moira MacLean
Deposited On:	14 December 2010

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Colus sp.

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