Abstract
A remotely operated vehicle (ROV) survey aimed at exploring the waters round of Montecristo Island, a nature reserve in the Tuscan Archipelago (Tyrrhenian Sea), was carried out in summer 2008 down to a maximum depth of ca. 160m. The main target of this exploration was checking the potential occurrence of deep-water scleractinian corals. Whilst the ROV transects did not document any deep-water corals, they did reveal that the coarse detrital bottom of the Montecristo granitic edifice between 110160m was dominated by a crinoid facies made of Leptometra
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