Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Dense mass of anomuran crab Kiwa around deep-sea hydrothermal vent.jpg

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Original – A population of Yeti Crabs Kiwa n. sp. in near a hydrothermal vent. Scale bar is equivalent to 10cm in the foreground. Unsharp areas in the image highlight hot gas being emitted from the vents, which feeds bacteria that the Yeti Crabs eat.
Reason
One of the elements of our systemic bias is that we under-feature marine material, especially from the extreme deep. This was taken at a depth of 2602m, and shows a population of Yeti Crabs (white) going about their business around a hydrothermal vent. The image also shows species of Vulcanolepas and Peltospiroidea, which are annotated.
Articles in which this image appears
Kiwaidae, hydrothermal vent
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Biology
Creator
A. D. Rogers et al., edited by Papa Lima Whiskey 2

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 16:04, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]