13 Mariana Islands species photographed
All of the images presented here are still-frame images from ROV video obtained during the NOAA Okeanos Explorer’s 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas mission
Acenthephyra sp. A
Bathystylodactylus bathyalis?
Heterocarpus ensifer
Heterocarpus laevigatus?
Heterocarpus sp. A
Lebbeus sp. A
Lebbeus sp. B
Nematocarcinus cf. longirostris
pandalid? sp. A
Plesionika alcocki
Plesionika sp. A
Rimicaris? sp. B
Rimicaris sp. A
Additional deep-sea caridean shrimp species reported from the Mariana Islands by Paulay et al. (2003):
Alvinocaridids
- Rimicaris vandoverae (Martin & Hessler, 1990)
Disciadids
- Discias musicus Holthuis, 1981
Pandalids
- Heterocarpus dorsalis Bate, 1888
- Heterocarpus gibbosus Bate, 1888
- Heterocarpus lepidus de Man, 1917
- Heterocarpus longirostris MacGilchrist, 1905
- Heterocarpus sibogae de Man, 1917
- Heterocarpus tricarinatus Alcock & Anderson, 1894
- Plesionika edwardsii (Brandt, 1851)
- Plesionika ensis (A. Milne Edwards, 1881)
- Plesionika martia (A. Milne Edwards, 1883)
- Plesionika ocellus (Bate, 1888)