Biological Oceanography

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Plate 14.4 Time-series from transects of sediment-surface photographs of abundances
(filled blue dots) of the holothurian Elpidia minutissima and the echinoid
Echinocrepis rostrata at Station M seaward from southern California, USA. Time-
series of median individual sizes (open red circles) of the two species were measured
for samples from a trawl attached behind the camera sled.


(^) (After Smith et al. 2009.)
Plate 15.1 A montage of animals from deep-sea hydrothermal vents. (a)
Vestimentiferan worms, Riftia pachyptila, at the Galapagos Ridge in 1977, © the late
J. Edmond, courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. (b) Vent mussels,
Bathymodiolus thermophilus, on the East Pacific Rise at 21°N. (c) Vent clams,
Calyptogena magnifica. (d) A black smoker vent with sundry animals nearby.
(Frames b, c and d © J. Baross, courtesy of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).

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