frongt@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Youtube sensationlist bs. Fortunately there’s the paper link, so I went and looked, and here’s what they found (reformatted for readability)
30 groups with indeterminable morphotaxa numbers (‘spp’) were also included. These included
- groups of small individuals that swarm (e.g. Amphipoda and Mysida),
- groups with small indeterminable body sizes (e.g., Annelida, munnopsid Isopoda, Ophiuroidea, elasipodid Holothuroidea),
- individuals of groups that were often drifting too far from the camera to confidently identify (e.g., Appendicularia, Narcomedusae, Trachymedusae and Ctenophora) and
- other groups that are notoriously difficult to identify from images (e.g., Monothalamea).
It’s not “wild unknown deep sea creature”, it’s “we didn’t get a good enough picture to say what species this annelid is”.