Characteristics
of deep-sea animal species
(print this sheet out and refer to it during the bottom traverse)
| Animal characteristics | Vent-specific species | Non-vent species |
| Sessile
and slow colonizers (found only on old lava) |
Sponges,
seafans, stalked crinoids, soft corals |
|
| Sessile
or slow moving, but fast colonizers (found on old and new lava) |
Tubeworms, scale-worms, palmworms, snails, limpets (vents on new lava have few species and small tubeworms) | |
| Mobile
and fast swimmers (these do not tell you anything about the age of the lava) |
Vent fish | Octopuses,
crabs, sea cucumbers, brittle stars, rattail fish, fathead sculpins |
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