| Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida |
| Comatulidae | Anneissia | bennetti |
| Genus | Species |
BI-2020-011
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Specimen #5. Verbatim remarks: "Oxycomanthus (=Anneissia) bennetti. Singly or in groups of up to several individuals perched on dead or living coral pinnacles, 12-64 ft. Chiefly immature specimens with 9-11 arms per ray. In situ color: green with pinnules black basally & tips orange. In lab: ray bases finely mottled dark brown & light green; middle & distal arms dark brownish black with few fine green speckles; pinnules dark brownish black with orange tips; disk green. Cd diam 10 mm; R=140 mm, arms 52; cirri XXXIV up to 36 mm long. 1 blk myzo; 1 sm shrimp. Arm (spec. from 64 ft) preserved in 95% EtOH."
Dive 2
Lighthouse Reef (South), SW of Lighthouse at entrance to Malakal Harbor, E of Ngeruktable I.
7.2754° N
134.4598° E
20.1 m
Nov. 25, 2002
SCUBA
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Charles Messing | Emilio Basilius
Charles Messing
EtOH 95%
EtOH 50%
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Depth indicates maximum depth for the dive, 66 ft. Verbatim description: "Reef slope with widely spaced buttresses & broad grooves filled chiefly with dead staghorn Acropora rubble. Scattered dome-shaped colonies of finely branched Millepora."