Polycheles crustacean
Description
Strange bathyal crustacean found living in soft sediment. Probably uses long claws to dig out polychaetes from burrows.
| Item Type: | Image |
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| Title: | Polycheles crustacean |
| Creator(s): | Jones, Daniel |
| Identification: | Thurston, Mike |
| Date: | 23 October 2004 |
| Time: | 14:04:22 |
| Classification: | Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods) > Class Malacostraca (Crabs, krill, pill bugs, shrimps, prawns) > Order Decapoda (Crabs, lobsters, prawns, shrimps) > Family Polychelidae |
| Species: | Polycheles sp. |
| Behaviour: | usually found burrowing in seabed. Swims up when disturbed by ROV |
| Site: | Atlantic > Northern Tropical Atlantic > Tiof |
| Site Description: | Seafloor |
| Depth (m): | 1324 |
| Latitude: | 17 deg 57' 05" N |
| Longitude: | 16 deg 51' 49" W |
| Northing: | 1985801 |
| Easting: | 302630 |
| UTM Zone: | 28 |
| Countries: | West Africa > Mauritania |
| Substratum: | soft sediment |
| Rig: | Boa Deep C |
| Project Partners: | Woodside, Oceaneering |
| ROV: | Millenium 22 |
| Keywords: | crab, mauritania, burrowed, burying, lobster |
| Deposited By: | Dr Daniel Jones |
| Deposited On: | 29 January 2010 |
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