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Spiral-tufted bryozoan
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A Bryozoan's Medical Endosymbiont

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an illustration of various squids and octopuses
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How Big are the Cephalopods?

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A basket star with many arms.
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Basket Star

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A starfish eating a mussel.
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Starfish Feeding on Mussels

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This is a series of images showing how a typical nightly courtship display would look like, where certain males initiate the display (2), others follow (3), and different species display their own unique “light shows” nearby (4 and 5).
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A typical nightly courtship display for P. annecohenae

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A Peacock Mantis Shrimp clutches her eggs
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A Mother's Clutch

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A cross-section of a nautilus shell is not only beautiful, it also is a great example of the chambered cephalopod shell. The projections splitting each chamber are the siphuncle tubes that allow gas and liquid to be transferred from chamber to chamber. 
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Chambered Shells

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Three types of squid tentacles and their suckers
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A Squid's Suckers

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Comb jellies (such as this Bolinopsis species) are named for their combs: the rows of cilia lining their bodies that propel them through the ocean.
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Ctenophore Combs - Close Up

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Stephanocyathus (A.) spiniger, a solitary, deep-water stony coral species, has six long spines that slow it from sinking into soft substrates.
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Solitary Deep-water Corals

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A brilliant red octopus photographed at more than 8,800 feet (about 2,700 meters) in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Deep Water Octopus in the Gulf of Mexico

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A sculpture of a giant octopus made of ocean debris
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Octavia the Octopus

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