CoML: Species of the Week

The Census of Marine Life discovered more than 6,000 new species during a ten-year project to catalog all life in the sea. This new series will showcase some of the 201,206 species that were validated and counted during this "decade of discovery."

Munnopsis Isopod Crustacean
Ceratonotus steiningeri
Hydrothermal vent snail
Hippolyte Catagrapha & Myzostomid
Sympagohydra Tuuli
Burrower Loriciferan, Culexiregiloricus Trichiscalida
spiny lobster, Palinurus barbarae
Crysomallon Squamiferum: gastropod mollusc
Chromis abyssus (Deep Blue Chromis)
Ostracod Archiconchoecetta
Eelpout Lycodonus
Larvacean Oikopleura "Sea Tadpole"
Purple Sea Star
Antarctic sea star
Amphipod Crustacean Lysianassoid
Hydatinidae Gastropod (red-lined paper bubble)