<i>Bathycyroe fosteri</i> (IMAGE)

University of Sheffield

<i>Bathycyroe fosteri</i>

Caption

Named after Dudley Foster, pilot of the US Navy submersible Alvin, who collected the first specimen, Bathycyroe fosteri (Order Lobata) is common in the midwater plankton collections. A lobate ctenophore found at intermediate depths in all the oceans. This species is very common and abundant ctenophore near the mid-Atlantic ridge.

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MAR-ECO/Marsh Youngbluth

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