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All of the Musicians Seamounts are named after composers.

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This one is named after the composer Verdi, who is most well known for his operas.

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The name was proposed by Dr. William Menard.

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He was, at the time, at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, at the University of California San Diego.

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He proposed this name in 1959, after his group did some preliminary mapping of the seamounts with the lower-resolution sonars available at that time.

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So his group was quite influential in early days of seamount hunting, so to speak.

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Oh, we've got, looks like a ctenophore.

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And they usually glow sort of rainbow-like when the light from the ROV shines on them.

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We got some information from Dhugal Lindsay on this.

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And it is a yet undescribed species in a yet undescribed family.

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So, completely new to science.