Epipelagic and meospelagic species from midwater trawls off the shore of Hawaii in 2012

The barbeled dragonfish Eustomias pacificus

The calycophoran siphonophore Hippopodius hippopus

An unidentifed melamphaid (Melamphaes sp.?)

A juvenile of the neustonic chondrophore Porpita porpita

The pelagic bolitaenid octopus Japatella diaphana

The hyperiid amphipod Platyscelus armatus

The dragonfish Aristostomias sp. (note red sub-orbital photophore)

An unidentified pyrosome

An unidentified shrimp

An unidentifed larval deep-sea angler fish

An unidentified blue shrimp, likely from near-surface waters

Juvenile of the neustonic nudibranch Glaucus sp.

Two views of the "cock-eyed" squid Histioteuthis sp. showing the different eyes

The humpback angler fish Melanocetus johnsonii

The mesopelagic nemertean Protopelagonemertes

The mesopelagic annelid Tomopteris sp.

A juvenile of a sawtooth eel, Serrivomer sp. (Serrivomeridae).

The mesopelagic siphonophore Vogtia sp.

An unidentified mesopelagic crustacean

A whipnose angler fish (Gigantactis?)

The hyperiid amphipod Phrosina semilunata

The cranchid squid Leachia pacifica

The barreleye spookfish Opisthoproctus soleatus

The hyperiid amphiod Phronima sp. brooding eggs in a barrel made from a hollowed-out salp

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