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Classification: Porifera (Sponges)


Number of items: 63.

Black bellied rosefish (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Foinaven
Depth (m): 600
Behaviour: Resting next to sponge & sea star

Black bellied rosefish and sponges, NWAD development West of Shetland (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > West of Shetland > North West Area Development (NWAD)
Depth (m): 350

Blue sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Foinaven
Depth (m): 600
Behaviour: Resting

Blue sponge (unidentified) (3 files)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Foinaven
Depth (m): 600
Behaviour: Encrusting rock with yellow sponge and Amphipod, Encrusting rock with yellow sponge, Encrusting rock being measured

Blue sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 350
Behaviour: Encrusting, attached to rock

Blue sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 350
Behaviour: With urchin

Bracket shaped sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 450
Behaviour: Attached to seafloor with another sponge at base

Bracket shaped sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 450
Behaviour: Attached to seafloor

Bracket shaped sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 450
Behaviour: Attached to rock

Bracket shaped sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 450
Behaviour: Attached, umbilical

Bracket shaped sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Foinaven
Depth (m): 600
Behaviour: Attached

Bracket shaped sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Foinaven
Depth (m): 600
Behaviour: Attached to rock

Bracket shaped sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Foinaven
Depth (m): 600
Behaviour: Attached to rock

Bracket shaped sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 395
Behaviour: Attached

Bracket shaped sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Foinaven
Depth (m): 600
Behaviour: Attached to a rock plus starfish

Bracket shaped sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Indian > Arabian Sea > India KKD-1
Depth (m): 2600
Behaviour: Colony attached

Bracket shaped sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 350
Behaviour: Attached to rock

Bracket shaped sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 350
Behaviour: Attached to rock

Bracket shaped sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 350
Behaviour: Attached

Bracket shaped sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 350
Behaviour: Attached to rock, ROV arm

Bracket shaped sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 350
Behaviour: Attached

Bracket shaped sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 450
Behaviour: Attached to seafloor

Bracket shaped sponge (unidentified) (5 files)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 450
Behaviour: Attached to seafloor near equipment, Attached to seafloor, Attached to rock, Attached to seafloor with small Squat lobster

Bracket shaped sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 450
Behaviour: Attatched to rock near colony of urchins

Branched sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Laggan Field
Depth (m): 650
Behaviour: Attached

Branched sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Foinaven
Depth (m): 600
Behaviour: Attached

Branched sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Foinaven
Depth (m): 600
Behaviour: Attached, hiding, sheltering

Branched sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Foinaven
Depth (m): 600
Behaviour: Attached to sediment with Squat Lobster

Branched sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 395
Behaviour: Attached to seafloor

Branched sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 395
Behaviour: Attached

Branched sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 395
Behaviour: Attached, hiding, sheltering

Branched sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 350
Behaviour: Attached to rock

Chamber sponge (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Laggan Field
Depth (m): 650
Behaviour: Prawn crawling over sponge

Chamber sponge (1 file)
Site: Indian > Arabian Sea > India KKD-1
Depth (m): 2600
Behaviour: Attached

Chamber sponge (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 450
Behaviour: Attached to seafloor along with bracket sponge?

Chamber sponge (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Laggan Field
Depth (m): 650
Behaviour: Prawn crawling over sponge

Chamber sponge (0 files)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Laggan Field
Depth (m): 650
Behaviour: Prawn crawling over sponge

Chondrocladia gigantea (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > West of Shetland > Rosebank
Depth (m): 1085
Behaviour: Sessile organism

Chondrocladia gigantea (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > Norwegian > Midnattsol
Depth (m): 928
Behaviour: Sessile organism

Mesh-like sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Laggan Field
Depth (m): 650
Behaviour: Attached to rock with prawns & anemone

Mesh-like sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > Gulf of Mexico > Jack
Depth (m): 2150
Behaviour: Attached, feeding

Mesh-like sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Laggan Field
Depth (m): 650
Behaviour: Attached to rock with prawns & anemone

Prawn (coldwater) on sponge (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Foinaven
Depth (m): 600
Behaviour: Crawling on a sponge

Rounded sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Foinaven
Depth (m): 600
Behaviour: Resting, swimming

Spherical yellow sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Laggan Field
Depth (m): 650
Behaviour: Resting

Spherical yellow sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Laggan Field
Depth (m): 650
Behaviour: Attached

Spikey Sea Cucumber (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Foinaven
Depth (m): 600
Behaviour: Group of two, travelling, feeding with sponge, fish,sea star

Sponge (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 450
Behaviour: Attached to seafloor

Sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Foinaven
Depth (m): 600
Behaviour: Attached to seafloor

Sponges (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 450
Behaviour: Attached alongside squat lobster

Stalked sponge (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Laggan Field
Depth (m): 650
Behaviour: Attached to seabed

Stalked sponge (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Laggan Field
Depth (m): 650
Behaviour: Attached to sea floor

Tower sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 450
Behaviour: Attached to seafloor

Transparent sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Laggan Field
Depth (m): 650
Behaviour: Attached to seafloor

Transparent sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Laggan Field
Depth (m): 650
Behaviour: Attached to seafloor

Transparent sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 395
Behaviour: Attached

Unidentified sponge (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 450
Behaviour: Attached to seafloor with branched organism (potential stylasterine or sponge)

Unidentified sponge (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 450
Behaviour: Attatched to rock

Unidentified sponge (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 450
Behaviour: On sea bed with cryptic galatheid crustacean

Unidentified sponge in the North Sea (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea
Depth (m): 165
Behaviour: Attached to seabed

Yellow sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Foinaven
Depth (m): 600
Behaviour: Attached

Yellow sponge (unidentified) (2 files)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Foinaven
Depth (m): 600
Behaviour: Encrusting on rock

Yellow sponge (unidentified) (1 file)
Site: Atlantic > North Sea > Schiehallion Field
Depth (m): 350
Behaviour: Beside sponge

This list was generated on Thu Jan 8 21:00:43 GMT 2009.

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