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Lithodes maja
No full textLithodes maja at the seabed at Morvin. This was seen at the site after drilling disturbance
Echinothuriid
No full textWalking over the seabedAn echinothuriid sea urchin.
The hooves on the spines are diagnostic for what Mortensen called asthenosomine echinothurioids. (This basically excludes only the Phormosoma group).
Notice the dark tips of the aboral spines; these are venom-bearing tissues.
There are 8 genera in the group with hooves on the spines the ambulacral plating strongly suggests a Sperosoma or a Tromikosoma.
It seems that these echinothuriids from the Lavani site are all the same species (except for Phormosoma
Coffinfish
No full textThis specimen is a Chaunax. It’s a member of the Chaunax fimbriatus group, and perhaps even C. fimbriatus. The systematics of the Indo-Pacific chaunacids has yet to be resolved, so identification is Chaunax, c.f. fimbriatus
Benthodytes sp
No full textThis holothurian (sea cucumber) is a species of Benthodytes. It is probably B. typica
Cnidarians from Mozambique
No full textattached to seafloorCorals, soft corals, stylasterines on hard substratum off Mozambiqu
