Life on Seamounts

Sponge with two species of crinoids (purple and yellow), Kelvin Seamount (Photo courtesy of Tim Shank, WHOI and DASS 2005, NOAA OE, URI, and IFE)

Iridogorgia magnispiralis coral with Glyptelasma barnacles, Nashville Seamount (Photo courtesy of Tim Shank, WHOI and DASS 2005, NOAA OE, URI, and IFE)

Plumapathes antipatharian coral, Caloosahatchee Seamount (Photo courtesy of Tim Shank, WHOI and DASS 2005, NOAA OE, URI, and IFE)

Plexaurid coral, Yakutat Seamount (Photo courtesy of Tim Shank, WHOI and DASS 2005, NOAA OE, URI, and IFE)

Enallopsammia scleractinian coral, Yakutat Seamount (Photo courtesy of Tim Shank, WHOI and DASS 2005, NOAA OE, URI, and IFE)

Anthomastus coral, Rehoboth Seamount (Photo courtesy of Tim Shank, WHOI and DASS 2005, NOAA OE, URI, and IFE)

Paragorgia coral with ophiuroid Asteroschema clavigera, Manning Seamount (Photo courtesy of Tim Shank, WHOI and DASS 2005, NOAA OE, URI, and IFE)

Ophiuroid Asteroschema clavigera on octocoral Paramuriceabiscaya, Yakutat Seamount (Photo courtesy of Tim Shank, WHOI and DASS 2005, NOAA OE, URI, and IFE)

Bathypalaemonella serratipalma shrimp on Chrysogorgia coral, Yakutat Seamount (Photo courtesy of Tim Shank, WHOI and DASS 2005, NOAA OE, URI, and IFE)

Paragorgia coral with yellow zoanthids & a pycnogonid spider, Balanus Seamount (Photo courtesy of Tim Shank, WHOI and DASS 2005, NOAA OE, URI, and IFE)