May 5, 2021: Polychaete

This unusual polychaete was documented during a 2015 Hohonu Moana: Exploring Deep Waters off Hawaiʻi expedition dive at Deep Twin Ridge, on the south side of the Johnston Seamounts in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.

Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2015 Hohonu Moana. Download larger version (jpg, 670 KB).

This unusual polychaete was documented during a 2015 Hohonu Moana: Exploring Deep Waters off Hawaiʻi expedition dive at Deep Twin Ridge, on the south side of the Johnston Seamounts in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.

From: Here in Hawaiʻian Waters It Is...Cold!.