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Caption: An unknown sea spider (pycnogonid) from 500 m depth on the Bellingshausen Sea continental shelf. Nearly one fifth of the world’s sea spiders are found around Antarctica and they are abundant from the shallows to below shelf depths. Along with sea stars, gastropod and cephalopod molluscs and nemertean worms, sea spiders are one of the most common of the unusual predator community that occurs in the Southern Ocean. Like amphipods and isopods some Antarctic species grow to become giants. Images taken onboard RRS James Clark Ross cruise JR230 (benthic pelagic coupling cruise).
Keywords: JR230 benthic pelagic coupling cruise | marine benthos | sea spider pycnogonid
Location: Bellingshausen Sea continental shelf
Season: 2009/2010
Photographer: Pete Bucktrout
Image size (pixels): 4812 x 3960