PELAGIC AND NEUSTONIC

A 5cm piece of pumice providing a home for a variety of species. A mini ecosystem on a tiny raft, at the mercy of wind and current. Found in March 2008, this pumice originates from a volcano just SW of Vav’au, Tonga, called the home reef volcano. It erupted in August 2006

Coral (Pocillopora sp?) skeleton on pumice

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PUMICE AND OTHER FLOTSAM -- which can comprise timber, plastics, shoes, fishing floats and large seeds.

Pumice
Pumice
Vine seed

CNIDARIA

Thysanostoma thysanura
Catostylus mosaicus
Species?
Chrysaora sp?
Species?
Phyllorhiza sp?
Pelagia noctiluca
Species?
Olindias phosphorica
Porpita porpita
Physalia utriculus
Velella velella
Aequorea macrodactyla
Aequorea sp?
Species?
Aurelia aurita
Species?

CTENOPHORA

Bolinopsis sp
Pleurobrachia sp?
Neis sp?
Beroe sp?
Beroe sp?
Species?
Species?
Bolinopsis sp?

CRUSTACEA

Planes cyaneus
Planes sp
Lepas pectinata
Lepas anatifera
Amphipod sp

MOLLUSCA

Glaucus marginatus
Glaucus atlanticus
Tergipes sp
Stylocheilus longicauda
Stylocheilus longicauda?
Fiona pinnata
Recluzia sp
Litiopa sp?
Sepia sp
Spirula spirula
Janthina janthina
Janthina prolonga
Janthina umbilicata
Janthina exigua

ANNELIDA

Species?
Amphinome rostrata
Platynereis sp
Species?

BRYOZOA

Species?

 

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