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Summary
| Description |
English:
Tubeworms, soft
corals
and chemosynthetic mussels at a seep located 3,000 metres down on the
Florida Escarpment
.
Eelpouts
, a
Galatheid
crab and an
alvinocarid
shrimp feed on mussels damaged during a sampling exercise.
Image from NOAA Ocean Explorer .
Français :
Des
Vers tubicoles
, des
coraux mous
et des moules
chimiosynthétiques
vivent autour d'un suintement hydrothermal, à 3000 m aux pieds de l'escarpement du
plateau continental
de la
Floride
. Un poisson de la famille des
lycodes
, un crustacé décapode de la famille des
Galatheidae|Galatheidae
(sorte de crabe) et une crevette de la famille des
Alvinocarididae
s'alimentent sur des moules endommagées au cours d'un exercice d'échantillonnage.
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/deepeast01/background/complexity/media/complexity2.html Source de l'image :[NOAA Ocean Explorer]. |
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Licensing
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This image is in the
public domain
because it contains materials that originally came from the U.S.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
, taken or made as part of an employee's official duties.
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