ALGAE and INVERTEBRATES of Deepwater Communities in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Developed by Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Emma L
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ALGAE AND INVERTEBRATES of Deepwater Communities in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Developed by Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Emma L. Hickerson and G.P. Schmahl CLASS HOLOTHUROIDEA Collaborators: Mary Wicksten (Texas A&M University), Douglas C. Weaver and Kyle Byers (NOAA/FGBNMS), Lance Horn (National Undersea Research ORDER ASPIDOCHIROTIDA Center/University of North Carolina at Wilmington), Suzanne Fredericq (University of Louisiana, Lafayette), Stephen Cairns (Smithsonian Institute), Chris KINGDOM PLANTAE Pomory (University of West Florida), Charles Messing (NOVA Southeastern University), Gordon Hendler (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County), Family Holothuriidae Family Stichopodidae Isostichopus badionotus Wes Tunnell and Fabio Moretzsohn (Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi), John Forsythe (University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) DIVISION CHLOROPHYTA (GREEN ALGAE) ORDER SCLERACTINIA February, 2007 Order Bryopsidales Order Cladophorales Order Siphonocladales Family Codiaceae Family Pocilloporidae Family Anadyomenaceae Family Valoniaceae PHYLUM ECHINODERMATA CLASS ASTEROIDEA ORDER FORCIPULATIDA ORDER VALVATIDA Family Goniasteridae Family Asteriidae Holothuria lentiginosa Isostichopus badionotus Codium repens Anadyomene lacerata Ventricaria ventricosa CLASS PHAEOPHYCEAE (BROWN ALGAE) Order Dictyotales Order Fucales Family Dictyotaceae Family Sargassaceae Madracis brueggemanni Coronaster briareus Sclerasterias contorta Tosia parva CU1 CU2 CLASS CRINOIDEA Family Ophidiasteridae ORDER COMATULIDA Family Antedonidae Madracis cf asperula? Padina profunda Sargassum hystrix Family Oculinidae CU3 DIVISION RHODOPHYTA (RED ALGAE) Linckia guildingii Narcissia trigonaria Hacelia superba ORDER Order Cryptonemiales ORDER SPINULOSIDA CHARITOMETRIDAE Family Cryptonemiaceae Family Schizymeniaceae Family Echinasteridae Yet to be idenitified sea stars Stylometra spinifera var. brevispina CR07 Madrepora carolina Oculina sp.? Family Caryophylliidae Henricia sexradiata ST01 ST13 ST08 CR11 Crinometra brevipinna Halymenia hancockii Titanophora incrustans CLASS OPHIUROIDEA ORDER ORDER OPHIURIDA Yet to be identified crinoids ORDER PHRYNOPHIURIDA COMASTERIDAE Order Gigartinales Order Caulerpales Family Gorgonocephalidae Family Kallymeniaceae Family Caulerpaceae Oxysmilia rotundifolia CR06 SO2 Comactinia meridionalis Comactinia meridionalis Davidaster discoideus Astrophyton muricatum Astrocyclus caecilia Caulerpa racemosa Family Gorgonocephalidae Kallymenia westii Family Ophiothricidae PHYLUM MOLLUSCA CLASS CEPHALOPODA CLASS GASTROPODA KINGDOM ANIMALIA ORDER OCTOPODA ORDER VETIGASTROPODA ORDER CAENOGASTROPODA Family Octopodidae Family Ovulidae PHYLUM CNIDARIA PHYLUM ANNELIDA Family Pleurotomariidae CLASS ANTHOZOA CLASS POLYCHAETA SO3 SUBCLASS HEXACORALLIA ORDER CANALIPALPATA Yet to be identified stony coral Order Zoanthidea Family Serpulidae ST07 Ophiothrix suensonii SUBCLASS CERIANTIPATHARIA CLASS ECHINOIDEA ORDER CERIANTHARIA ORDER CIDAROIDA ORDER DIADEMATOIDA Family Cidaridae Family Diadematidae Octopus - Scaeurgus unicirrus Entemnotrochus adansonianus Cyphoma gibbosum PHYLUM ARTHROPODA Slit shell Flamingo Tongue CLASS MALACOSTRACA Family Palaemonidae Family Axiidae Protopalythoa grandis ORDER DECAPODA Family Serpulidae Family Pandalidae Mushroom zoanthid Filograna huxleyi? Family Hippolytidae Order Actinaria Family Aliciidae Family Isophelliidae TA02 Stylocidaris affinis Astropyga magnifica TA01 ORDER TEMNOPLEUROIDA SUBCLASS OCTOCORALLIA Family Toxopneustidae ORDER PENNATULACEA Plesionika longicauda Lysmata grabhami Periclimenes pedersoni Calaxius sp. Family Inachidae Family Galatheidae Family Diogenidae All of these images were obtained with a camera on a Alicia mirabilis Telmatactis sp. remotely operated vehicle at Warty anemone depths between 50m and 150m Lytechinus sp. Lytechinus sp. Stenorynchus seticornis Munida sp. Dardanus fucosus? SPEN1 SPEN2 SPEN3 Arrow crab.