Grooved Tanner Crab Rattail Fish Squat Lobster Sixgill Shark

Scientific Name: .Chionoecetes tanneri Scientific Name:...... Coryphaenoides Scientific Name: ...... Munidopsis spp. Scientific Name:... Hexanchus griseus acrolepis Average Size:...... 0.08-6.3 inches Size:...... Up to 16 feet in length Size:...... 1-3 feet Squat lobsters have short, flattened Depth Range: ...... 174-6,378 feet Depth Range: ...... 656-3,280 feet Depth Range: ...... 650 ft - 2.5 miles bodies and long antennae that are used to locate objects and maintain Life span...... up to 70 years One of three species sold as snow distance from other lobsters. They Sixgill sharks can be found around crab for consumption, grooved typically eat small worms or crusta- the world. These reclusive creatures Tanner crabs have a deep groove Rattail fish, or grenadiers, are curious ceans or scavenge on dead organ- are usually found in very deep water, running down the center of their fish that have adapted to thrive in the isms. Squat lobsters have long claws making them hard to study. These shells. These crabs have four pairs of dark ocean. They have large eyes that can be up to twice as long as sharks feed or scavenge on fish, long thin legs and one pair of shorter that can detect bioluminescent organ- their bodies. crustaceans, rays, and sometimes legs equipped with pincers. isms, and sensory structures on their seals and other sharks. heads to help sense food sources. FUN FACT: Squat lobsters look like FUN FACT: Chionoecetes means lobsters, but they are actually more FUN FACT: As their name suggests, snow (chio) inhabitant (ioketes), FUN FACT: Some rattails use their closely related to hermit crabs. these sharks have six pairs of gills, which is why they are also referred swim bladders to produce a drum- whereas most sharks have only to as snow crabs. ming sound for communication. five pairs!

Sea Pig Hesionid Worms Giant Isopod Hagfish Octopus Ampharetid Worms Osedax worm Scientific Name: .Scotoplanes globosa Family:...... Hesionidae Scientific Name:...... Bathynomus Scientific Name: Eptatretus spp. & Myxini spp. Scientific Name: ...... Muusoctopus spp. Family:...... Ampharetidae Scientific Name:...... Osedax spp. giganteus Size:...... 3-8 inches Depth Range:...... up to 2,132 feet Depth Range: ...... 52–3,937 feet Distribution:...... Worldwide Range: ...... Worldwide Size:...... 7.5-14.2 inches Muusoctopus are a genus of deep- Depth Range: ...... 3,300–19,500 feet sea octopuses. Muusoctopus octo- Hesionid worms are a type of seg- Depth Range: ...... 550-7,020 feet Hagfish are jawless, but have two rows Ampharetid worms are a type of Bone-eating Osedax worms are puses typically lack an ink sac. This polychaete worm, a segmented worm a translucent pink or white. The female Sea pigs, also known as sea mented polychaete worm. Each body of pointed teeth that are used to bore a genus is cosmopolitan, which means with spines, or bristles, along their worms secrete an acid that dissolves cucumbers, are common offshore segment is equipped with a pair of Giant isopods are relatives of crabs tunnel through flesh, allowing them to that these species inhabit every sides. These segmented worms live the bones and metabolize the lipids in Monterey Bay. These animals leg-like extensions with spiny bristles. and lobsters. They have two sets of consume their meal from the inside out. ocean in the world. They can survive in a tube-like structure and can be of the whale. Male Osedax worms crawl slowly along the seafloor They will frequently form commensal antennae, one for chemical sensing Hagfish also have an excellent sense of in a variety of extreme deep-sea found widespread in the sediments are much smaller ­— up to 600 male on stilt-like tube feet and use relationships with sea stars, crabs, (food) and one for tactile sensing. smell and touch via whiskers, or barbels, habitats, from hydrothermal vents to surrounding a whale fall. worms can live within the gelatinous tentacles around their mouths and other organisms, hiding on or They have a slow metabolism and around their mouth. cold seeps. tubes surrounding a females’ trunk. to dig for pieces of food. within them. don’t move much unless they detect a meal or predator nearby. FUN FACT: Hagfish have slime glands on FUN FACT: The tubes the worms live FUN FACT: In 2018, scientists on the Some species of the sides of their bodies, which secrete a in are commonly made of sand grains FUN FACT: Osedax worms do FUN FACT: Sea pigs have long FUN FACT: E/V Nautilus observed over a thou- hesionids are known as “iceworms” mucous used to deter predators. and are open on both ends. not have a digestive system, and whip-like sensory structures FUN FACT: Their large size, called sand Muusoctopus octopuses, the due to their affinity for living near instead use symbiotic bacteria to that help them find food in gigantism, may be an adaptation to largest grouping of these octopuses deep-sea cold seeps and frozen aid in digesting the whale bones. the deep sea. extreme pressure in the deep ocean. ever recorded. methane hydrates.