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Time-series photographs of the sea floor in western Massachusetts Bay, 1996 - 2005


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Table 5. Identifications of animals and plants observed in the time-series photographs obtained at LT-A. Examples from photographs in Butman and others 2008a and 2008b. [GMT, Greenwich Mean Time]

Identification Image Deployment (frame number) Date Time
Calcareous algae (magenta) Image of  Calcareous algae. 374 (317) 02 May 1991 2238 GMT
Cancer crab Image of Cancer crab. 374 (378) 18 May 1991 0419 GMT  
Cunner (Tautogolabrus adsperus)  Cunner. 347 (140) 14 August 1990 1243 GMT
Cunner (Tautogolabrus adsperus)   Cunner. 347 (136) 13 August 1990 1254 GMT
Family Gadidae (species uncertain, possibly cod) Family Gadidae (species uncertain, possibly cod).     374 (432) 31 May 1991 1603 GMT    
Flounder  Flounder. 413 (273) 16 April 1993 0001 GMT    
Hydroids or hydrozoans growing in compass  Hydroids or hydrozoans growing in compass. 400 (674) 22 Sep 1992 2351 GMT  
Lobster (Homarus americanus)    Lobster (Homarus americanus) 400 (747) 5 October 1992 0330 GMT
Finger sponge (Haliclona oculata) Finger sponge. 347 (004) 11 July 1990 1851 GMT
Spiny sunstar (Crassaster papposus) Spiny sunstar. 338 (185) 19 January 1990 1134 GMT
Spiny sunstar Crassaster papposus    Spiny sunstar. 374 (101) 9 March 1991 2343 GMT
Sculpin (Myoxocephalussp.) and spiny sunstar (Crassaster papposus)  Sculpin. 347 (287) 19 September 1990 1807 GMT  
Green sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis  Green sea urchin. 338 (162) 13 January 1990 1909 GMT
Skate Raja sp.  Skate. 338 (121) 03 January 1990 1557 GMT
Blood seastar (Henrecia sanguinolenta ) and cunner Blood seastar. 383 (136) 15 July 1991 1252 GMT    
Northern seastar (Asterias vulgaris.)  Northern seastar. 413 (235) 9 April 1993 1636 GMT

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