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Errina fissurata attached to pebbles on the Ross Sea slope, Antarctica

DTIS camera, IPY-CAML 2008 Ross Sea voyage, LINZ

Pink Errina fissurata attached to pebbles on the Ross Sea slope, Antarctica at 470 m depth. Other invertebrates visible in the image are a variety of sponges and the white spiky brittle star Ophiacantha pentactis.