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Friday Deep-Sea Picture (05/18/07) Challenger Report Illustrations

Category: TGIF: Pictures & Movies
Posted on: May 18, 2007 3:59 AM, by CR McClain

These beautiful illustrations are from the Challenger Reports available online. The first is of the very large, deep water, pycnogonid sea spider, Colossendeis gigas. The second (below the fold) contains Octopus levis and Octopus bermudensis both new species described on the expedition. The last contains at center a gastropod from the genus Xenophora that glues other shells onto its own shell as it is produced. Around the edge are various species from the genus Natica.

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