Deep-Sea Amphipods -? Eurythenes grillus

Deep-Sea Amphipods-Mayerella sp

Deep-Sea Amphipods-Valettiopsis concava

Deep-Sea Amphipods -Haploops lodo female gill and oostegite

Deep-Sea Amphipods-Haploops lodo

Deep-Sea Amphipods-Ampelisca unsocalae -1040m

Deep-Sea Amphipods-Haploops lodo male pleated gill

Haploops lodo sediment tubes on the seafloor 3600 m

Deep-Sea Amphipods-Ampelisca unsocalae Family Ampeliscidae

Deep-Sea Amphipods -Bathymedon kassites Family Oedicerotidae

Deep-Sea Amphipods-Bruzelia ?tuberculata Family Synopiidae

Deep-Sea Amphipods-Harpiniopsis epistomata Family Phoxocephalidae

Deep-Sea Amphipods-Lepidepecreum serraculum Family Lysianassidae

Deep-Sea Amphipods-Juvenile Listriella sp Family Liljeborgiidae

Deep-Sea Amphipods-Harpiniopsis ?emeryi Family Phoxocephalidae

Deep-Sea Amphipods -Bathymedon pumlis Family Oedicerotidae

Deep-Sea Amphipods-Hippomedon columbianus Family Lysianassidae

Deep-Sea Amphipods-Metopa dawsoni Family Stenothoidae

Deep-Sea Amphipods-Amphipoda sp

Deep-Sea Amphipods -?Hippomedon columbianus Family Lysianassidae

Deep-Sea Cumaceans -Campylapsis sp

Deep-Sea Cumaceans-Leptostylis sp

Deep-Sea Cumaceans-Diastylis sp

Deep-Sea Cumaceans-Leucon magnadentata (brooding female)

Deep-Sea Cumaceans-Leucon magnadentata

Deep-Sea Harpacticoids

Deep-Sea Isopods -Synidotea sp.

Deep-Sea Isopods-Haploniscidae

Deep-Sea Isopods-Synidotea calcarea

Deep-Sea Isopods-Desmosomatid sp

Deep-Sea Isopods-Ischnomesid

Deep-Sea Isopods-Ischnomesid

Ischnomesid

Deep-Sea Ostracodes -Podocopid Ostracod Macrocyprididae?

Deep-Sea Ostracodes (Ostracods) -Myodocopida sp

Deep-Sea Ostracodes (Ostracods) -Cylindroleberidinae probably Parasterope

Deep-Sea Ostracodes (Ostracods)

Deep-Sea Ostracodes (Ostracods)

Deep-Sea Ostracodes (Ostracods)

Deep-Sea Ostracodes (Ostracods)

Deep-Sea Tanaids

Deep-Sea Tanaids

Deep-Sea Tanaids

Deep-Sea Tanaids

Skeleton shrimp.This strange-looking animal is a caprellid amphipod (also known as a skeleton shrimp) that lives on the mouthparts of deep-sea crabs. This particular animal was found clinging to a crab that MBARI researchers collected from the floor of Monterey Canyon, about 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) below the ocean surface. Inside the transparent body of this 8-millimeter (1/3-inch) female Caprella bathytatos you can see a clutch of eggs. Marine biologist Linda Kuhnz captured this pregnant amphipod using a camera attached to a microscope. Kuhnz spends hours using a microscope to find, catalog, and photograph the many tiny animals that live in seafloor sediment

Skeleton shrimp, Caprella bathytatos, collected from the mouthparts of the deep sea spider crab. The crab was collected on Alvin dive 3807 at Warwick Seamount (Alaska) -http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/02alaska/logs/jul12/jul12.html

Krill swarm.A pod of dolphins, a school of fish, a smack of jellies... Many marine organisms form aggregations. Some swarms contain thousands or even millions or animals. Euphuasiids (krill), like those in the picture above, can create swarms so dense that they turn the surface of the ocean pinkish-red. They are key players in California''s coastal ecosystem, providing food for everything from small seabirds to blue whales. This particular swarm contains a mix of Euphausia pacifica and Thysanoessa spinifera, the two most common species of krill found around Monterey Bay. They were attracted to the lights on MBARI''s remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Ventana while the ROV was working on research instruments in Monterey Canyon. Some parts of this swarm were so dense that the animals could no longer swim. They simply tumbled through the water, so that the swarm billowed and then collapsed like a cloud of smoke

Euphausiids are commonly called krill. After the copepods, euphausiids often rank second or third in terms of abundance in most oceanic waters, but are not common in the arctic�s central basins. As adults they range in size from 1-15 cm in body length, almost classifying as nekton (�swimmers� like fish) rather than plankton (�drifters�). Many of the species within this group undergo pronounced daily migrations spending the day at several hundred meters depth and coming to the surface to feed each night. They often form dense swarms that make them very patchy in terms of their overall distribution. They are a major food item for many other larger planktonic species, fish, sea-birds, seals, and the baleen whales-http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/sewardline/ZoopSpecies/Euphausiids.html

Euphausia pacifica is a small vertically migrating species of krill. It is not clear whether the luminescence, concentrated in photophores along the bottom of the body, is used for counterillumination. (Length approx. 2 cm)-http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/~biolum/organism/pictures/euphausiid.html

Thysanoessa spinifera