Commensal amphipod and stinking vase sponge

A commensal amphipod emerges from a stinking vase sponge collected during the first dive of the Islands in the Stream 2002 mission at the St. Augustine Scarp. Image courtesy of Islands in the Sea 2002, NOAA/OER.

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