Specialists from the Australian group CSIRO - the State Alliance for Scientific and Applied Research using a deep-sea camera surveyed the seabed south of Tasmania.
They discovered a place with beautiful corals, in which many living creatures, unknown species, lived.
According to the researchers, they discovered at least a hundred new species of mollusks, crabs and fish, as well as previously discovered, but very rare and therefore poorly studied species. Such as ghost shark and other deep sea sharks, Atlantic bighead, bioluminescent squid and entwined eel.
Over the course of four weeks, CSIRO's Investigator and its deep-sea cameras carefully surveyed the bottom of the Huon Commonwealth Marine Sanctuary, which has rarely been visited by humans over the past 20 years. Previously, bottom fishing was allowed here, but then this place was officially closed for fishing ships.
Photo: CSIRO.
The corals have yet to recover from human intervention, the researchers said, but there are indications that they are on the way.
There are also seamounts in this place, the height of the largest of which reaches 1250 meters.
The researchers not only filmed the animals, but also took samples for further study. Among the new species discovered were a lobster with huge claws, which received the species name Uroptychus litosus, a pale pink lobster and a similar pale pink crab.
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Photo: CSIRO.
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This polychaete worm of the Eunicidae family lives among coral reefs and is also a new species.
Starfish of the family Gorgonocephalidae. Below she is in an embrace with coral.
Photo: CSIRO.
