Limacina_leseuri
Modified foot act as wings for swimming
Pteropod mollusc
Lucicutia aurita
a bathypelagic (deep dwelling, >1000m)
Copepod
Lucifer_typica
Decapod
(R. Hopcroft)
Macrocypridina_castanea
This 6 mm long chocolate colored ostracod has transparent windows over its compund eyes
Ostracod
(R. Hopcroft)
Macrocypridina_castanea
This is a deep mesopelagic species, 600-800 m
Ostracod
(R. Hopcroft)
The spheres above are eggs.
(R. Hopcroft)
Nausithoe_sp.
Jellyfish
Oikopleura_cophocerca
Larvacean
(R. Hopcroft)
Pegantha (aboral view)
Jellyfish
(R. Hopcroft)
Phronima, Pram Bug
Top view of mother with many young inside her barrel home, a hollowed out salp test. A side view of this animal, outside the barrel, is at right.
Amphipod
Phronima_sp.
Deep-dwelling hyperiids, supposedly the inspiration of the movie 'Alien'
Amphipod
(R. Hopcroft)
Phylliroe_atlantica
a nudibranch
Mollusc
Pontellina_plumata
Copepod
(R. Hopcroft)