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Underwater Field Guide to
Ross Island & McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
Want List of Images
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Hello, I am interested in receiving images of these McMurdo Sound
organisms for review for incorporation into this Field
Guide. The best images are sharp, properly exposed, with the organism
filling at least half of the frame.
Thank you, Peter
- Sponges
- Cnidarians
- siphonophores
- ctenophores
- EXCEPTION: don't need Beroe
- salps
- small-sized jellyfish species --
don't need the big jellyfish species commonly seen, unless it is a species not listed
in the Field Guide
- anemones: need to see trunk as well as tentacular crown in photos.
- EXCEPTION: don't need Artemidactis victrix
- EXCEPTION: don't need Isotealia
- EXCEPTION: don't need Urticinopsis
- hydroids: all species; need identifications for these to be useful
- nephtheid soft coral Gersemia antarctica: need shots of it in Ross Island locations, with location and depth information, in order to record its distribution
- Molluscs
- Annelids / Polychaetes: all species,
- EXCEPTION: don't need Flabelligera mundata
- EXCEPTION: don't need Perkinsiana sp.
- EXCEPTION: don't need Chaetopterus
- Bryozoans: all species; need identifications for these to be useful
- Brachiopods: all species
- Arthropods
- Sea spiders: only those not in the Field Guide or
poorly represented in the Field Guide; need heads/bodies in clear focus
- Crustaceans
- Adult Caecognathia calva on hexactinellid sponges [look on Rossella spp. or
Anoxycalyx (Scolymastra) joubini] with a single male close to the oscular
opening, accompanied by a harem of several breeding females and also some
juveniles
- Santia charcoti, a one millimeter long isopod, widely distributed on
the body surface of Haliclona dancoi, probably grazes on the sponge, its
presence can be used to identify H. dancoi from other similar sponges
- macros of amphipods and isopods,
- EXCEPTION: don't need arcturid isopods
- EXCEPTION: don't need giant Antarctic isopod
- shrimps
- tanaids
- ostracods
- krill: need sharp macro shot with good depth of field
- barnacles
- Echinoderms
- Asteroids
- Other echinoderms
- any brittle star species not in the Field Guide
- sea cucumbers / holothurians: all species
- macro photo of the underside of the pencil urchin Ctenocidaris perrieri with
brooding juvenile urchins. These juvenile urchins will be up to five millimeters in size and are
located smack dab in the middle of the urchin's underside, on the membrane covering that
hole going into the urchin shell (called the peristome)
- bare test of Sterechinus neumayeri urchin, both top and bottom views, sharp focus
- Chordates
- Ascidians: all species
- EXCEPTION: don't need Cnemidocarpa verrucosa
- live Antarctic silverfish Pleuragramma antarcticum
- AND
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ANY SPECIES NOT in the FIELD
GUIDE
that you see while diving in McMurdo Sound