Tom Iliffe , a Texas A&M University
at Galveston professor of marnie biology, is seen here diving with a Megalodon
closed circuit rebreather in the Atlantida Tunnel, Lanzarote, Canary Islands.
Underwater caves such as this were the
focus of a National Science Foundation-supported expedition--"Survey of
Anchialine Cave Fauna of the Bahama Islands" (grant DEB 03-15903)--led by
Iliffe, a professor of marine biology at Texas A&M University at Galveston.
To learn more, see the Texas A&M
news story Texas A&M marine experts take discoveries to new underwater
heights; or visit Iliffe's website, Here. [Ref. Koenemann, S. M. Ziegler and
T.M. Iliffe (2008). Pleomothra fragilis n. sp. (Remipedia) from the Bahamas,
with remarks on morphologic reductions and postnaupliar development. Journal of
Crustacean Biology, 28(1):128-136.]
(Date of Images: March 2008)
Credit: Jill Heinerth
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