Video Categories:

 Porifera
sponges
Cnidaria
corals, anemones

Annelida
worms

Mollusca
snails, bivalves,
octopi, etc.
Echinodermata
sea stars, urchins,
brittle stars

Crustacea
crabs, shrimp, etc.
Chordata
fish
 
Seafloor Features

Videos of the seafloor were collected using a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV)*.
Aquarium videos were made of organisms collected on Transect Program cruises.

 Click on an image to see the video.

 

Porifera

 
Yellow sponge
(ROV, Station 18)
Inside vase sponge
(ROV, Station 18)
Sponge on soft coral
(ROV, Station 03)
Buried Sponges
(Rov, Station 12)

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Cnidaria

   
Anenome
(aquarium)
Soft Coral
(aquarium)
Various corals
(ROV, Station 18)

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Annelida

     
Fireworm
(TR 03 deck tape)
Featherduster Worm
(TR 03 deck tape)

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Mollusca

Lettered Olive
(Aquarium)
Flamingo's Tongue (Aquarium)
Cone Snail
(Aquarium)
Octopus
 (Aquarium)
Baby Octopus
(Aquarium)

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Echinodermata

Sea Star
Astropecten
articulata
(ROV, Station 12)
Sea Star
Luidia clathrata
(TR 01 deck tape)
Sea Star
Goniaster tessellatus (aquarium)
Brittle Star
Ophioderma brevicadum
 (TR 01 deck tape)
Brittle Star
Ophiolepis elegans
(TR 01 Deck tape)
Basket Star
(TR 03 Deck Tape)
Sea Urchin
Lytechinus variegatus
(aquarium)
Sea Urchin
Lytechinus variegatus
(aquarium)
Sea Urchin
Arbacia punctulata
(TR 03 Deck Tape)
Pencil Urchin
Stylocidaris affinis
(TR 03 Deck Tape)

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Crustacea (Decapoda)

Crab
Ovalipes stephensoni
(aquarium)
Decorator crabs
Peprochirus diogenes
(aquarium)
Decorator crab
Peprochirus diogenes
(aquarium)

Shame-faced crab
Calappa flammea
(ROV, Station 05)

Arrow crab
(aquarium)
Crab
Platylambrus granulata
(TRCH03 deck tape)
Crab
Hypoconcha sp.
(TRCH03 deck tape)
Giant Red
Hermit crab
Petrochirus diogenes
(aquarium)

Small hermit crab
Manucomplanus ungulatus
(TRCH03 deck tape)
Tiny hermit crab
on sponge
(ROV, Station 18)

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Chordata

Wrasse burrowing
(ROV, Station 05)
Cowfish
(ROV, Station 18)
Filefish
(ROV, Station 18)
Lionfish
(ROV, Station 12)
Flatfish
(ROV, Station 18)
Sea Robin
(aquarium)
Seahorse
(TR 01 deck tape)
Reticulated eel
(ROV, Station 18)
Guitarfish
(ROV, Station 18)
Clearnose Skate
(TR 01 deck tape)

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Seafloor Features

Mega-ripples
17 m
(ROV, Station 03)
Sand flat with
mega-ripples
20 m
(ROV, Station 05)
Hardground sponges 23 m
(ROV, Station 07)
Hardground ledge
23 m
(ROV, Station 07)
Hardground reef
49 m
(ROV, Station 12)

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* The ROV was generously loaned to the Transect Program by the
NOAA National Undersea Research Center (Univ. of North Carolina, Wilmington).

 

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Produced by Project Oceanica

Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences

College of Charleston

 
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