Description: A community of soft corals, sea stars, brittle stars, anemones, mussels and hydroids living on and around the bottom of the Heather Alpha platform in the North Sea
Item Type: Image
Title: Community of anemones, sea stars, brittle stars, mussels and hydroids in the North Sea
Species: Urticina sp., Mytilus edulis, Tubularia sp., Ophiothrix fragilis, Alcyonium digitatum, Asterias rubens, Metridium senile
Behaviour: Living on subsea structure
Site: Atlantic > North SeaNorth Sea
Site Description: Seafloor
Depth (m): approx 40
Countries: UK > North Sea
Habitat: Temperate
Rig: Heather Alpha
Project Partners: Rovtech, Lundin Petroleum, iicorr
Deposited By: Rob Curry
Deposited On: 24 May 2007