Spider Crabs and Jellyfish (IMAGE)

National Oceanography Centre, UK

Spider Crabs and Jellyfish

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Abundant populations of the deep-sea spider crab Encephaloides armstrongi from c. 1,000 m (lower boundary OMZ) in the Gulf of Oman and the dead bodies of large upper-ocean jellyfish (Crambionella orsini) which can occur in plague proportions in the Gulf of Oman.

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