SeaRover Dive Video

D659 Transect 44 Muddy slope with scarce epifauna. Throughout the whole dive, animal tracks and burrows are often encountered on the seafloor. P2. Water depth: 1967m. Feature: Slope

Highlights: Shrimp Plastic litter & anemones

The seafloor is soft muddy sediment with numerous burrows present, some are quite large. Crustaceans are noted at the entrances to some burrows. The holothurian Benthogone is present throughout. Some pycnogonids are present although generally very little conspicuous fauna. A single dropstone with six Phelliactis sp. is observed. Plastic rubbish is encountered.

START VIDEO [00:00:00]/12:36. Muddy slope with scarce epifauna. Animal tracks and burrows are often encountered on the seafloor. [1] ROV stops for pushcore sampling (x2). Muddy slope with scarce epifauna. Throughout the whole dive, animal tracks and burrows are often encountered on the seafloor. No dominant species are recorded on this transect. Epifauna encountered was mainly holothurians and Pycnogonida. [00:54:00] Rubbish. [01:07:00] rubbish. END VIDEO [01:11:00]/13:46.

Progression	Start	Duration	Code	Name
1	[00:00:00]	01:11:21	M.AtLB.Mu	Atlantic lower bathyal mud

Cnidaria
cf. Halcampoididae sp. : 984 : O
Phelliactis sp. 1 : 255 : R
Anthomastus grandiflorus : 278 : R
Radicipes cf. gracilis : 1044 : O
Pennatulacea (indet.) : 1114 : R
Pennatulacea sp. 3 (submerged axis) : 1191 : R
Arthropoda
Chaceon affinis : 254 : R

Colossendeis sp. 1 : 1059 : R
Eucarida sp. : 1106 : R
Echinodermata
Echinoidea sp. 1 : 279 : R
Benthogone sp. : 432 : F
Holothuroidea sp. (pink deep) : 1179 : R
Chordata
Halosauridae sp. : 1113 : R
Polyacanthonotus rissoanus : 552 : R

Notacanthiformes sp. 1 : 1012 : R
Actinopterygii sp. 4 : 1006 : R

Number of species = 16



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