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Summary
An unidentified sea pen shares a pit with a shrimp. Sea pens (Pennatulacea) are soft-bodied octocorals that anchor into sediments by inflating the base of a large polyp with water. The side branches of this large polyp hold 10 or more feeding polyps. The surrounding sediment contains many petropod shells. Pteropods are a kind of snail that swims in the water column, and when they die their shells sink to the bottom. Image Courtesy of the Deep Atlantic Stepping Stones Science Party, IFE, URI-IAO, and NOAA.
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http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/05stepstones/logs/aug12/media/slideshow/slideshow.html
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