Photographs of various stalk epifauna.
Left: Serpulid Hyalopomatus mironovi (tube length 13 mm)
attached to the ectoproct Striatodoma dorothea.
Center: Aplacophoran (body length 1.7 mm) wrapped around a branch
of the hydroid Lafoea dumosa.
Right: Agglutinated foraminiferan Rhizammina sp. spanning
1 mm between branches of Lafoea.
Left: Serpulid Bathyvermilia sp. (tube length 4 mm) attached
to a Hyalonema spicule.
Right: Foraminiferan “tree” type 1 (basal diameter 0.8 mm) attached
to a polychaete tube.
Left Top: Foraminiferan “tree” type 2 attached to and extending
2.5 mm from an ampharetid tube.
Left Bottom: Agglutinated foraminiferan Telammina sp.
(each connected “dome” diameter 0.1 mm) attached to Lafoea.
Center: Two isopods Haplomunna n. sp. perched on Caulophacus
sp.
The lower one (body ~5.5 mm) is next to a Bathyvermilia tube.
Right: Gravid female poecilostomatoid (body length 1.3 mm).