Showing posts with label peniagone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peniagone. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Some bonus swimming sea cucumber video!!

Recently made available to the Echinoblog!  by Emily B.!  Some swimming sea cucumber (Enypniastes, I believe..) video from the Gulf of Mexico...


Here's a few more classics-all conveniently here in one place!



A different genus..Paelopatides? 



Yet another..Peniagone


Have a great week!

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Bioluminescence 2009 Expedition! Swimming Cuke Video & MORE!

New!
Echinoderm Image & Video Highlights from the 2009 Bioluminescence Expedition! (from deep-sea Bahamas)

Video of the deep-sea SWIMMING holothurian Hansenothuria benti
Miller & Pawson (graciously identified by Dave Pawson, Curator of Echinoderms at the NMNH!) shown here being captured by the Johnson Sea Link submersible!



Three
Endoxocrinus maclearanus flank a purple sea fan with a snake star.
(Image from the Bioluminescence 2009 Expedition, NOAA/OER website)


The Deep-Sea brisingid starfish, Novodinia. Probably Novodinia antillensis...

(Image from the Bioluminescence 2009 Expedition, NOAA/OER website)


Dr. Charles "THE MAN" Messing. Crinoid expert, snappy dresser, thespian, and dude!! He discovered a new species while on this cruise ...