Bathybiaster vexillifer
Description
White asteroid sp. identified by Anna Dilman Institute of Oceanology, Academy of Sciences, Moscow (id on 26 June 2013)
| Item Type: | Image |
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| Title: | Bathybiaster vexillifer |
| Creator(s): | Jones, D. |
| Identification: | Dilman, Anna |
| Date: | 07 November 2010 |
| Time: | 10:02:03 |
| Copyright: | SERPENT project |
| Classification: | Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Echinodermata (Echinoderms) > Class Asteroidea (Sea Stars), Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Echinodermata (Echinoderms) > Class Asteroidea (Sea Stars) > Order Valvatida (Sea stars) > Family Astropectinidae (Sea stars) Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Echinodermata (Echinoderms) > Class Asteroidea (Sea Stars) > Order Valvatida (Sea stars) > Family Astropectinidae (Sea stars) |
| Species: | Bathybiaster vexillifer |
| Behaviour: | Asteroid was disturbed by ROV and then it began to bury itself within the sediment over several minutes |
| Site: | Atlantic > North Sea > West of Shetland > Lagavulin North Sea > West of Shetland > Lagavulin |
| Site Description: | Seafloor |
| Depth (m): | 1567 |
| Latitude: | 62 deg 39' 22" N |
| Longitude: | 1 deg 07' 33" W |
| Countries: | UK > West of Shetland |
| Habitat: | Benthic |
| Substratum: | Sand |
| Rig: | Stena Carron |
| Project Partners: | Chevron, Oceaneering |
| ROV: | Magnum |
| Keywords: | West of Shetland Lagavulin Benthic Atlantic Asteroid starfish |
| Deposited By: | Miss Moira MacLean |
| Deposited On: | 19 November 2010 |
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