CMarZ gallery animals

These are some of the zooplankton found on the CMarZ April cruise in the Sargasso Sea. Unless otherwise noted, they were taken by Russ Hopcroft, Univ. of Alaska.

Abylopsis-tetragona_1a Siphonophore	Atlanta_peroni_1a A swimming mollusc Heteropod	Atlanta_peroni_1k Heteropod	Baby_anenome1a the tentacles will point up when it settles on the sea floor Anemone
Baby_octopus_D1c Two big eyes give away this guy's predacious habit Mollusc	Baby_squid1b Mollusc	Brachyscelus-crusculum_1b Amphipod	Chelophyes_appendiculata_1b Siphonophore
Conchaecilla_daphnoides_1b Bioluminesces at tip of rostrum and tail, probably to appear larger as a defense against predators Ostracod	Conchoecissa_imbricata_1c One of the strongest vertical migrants of all the ostracods; from 500m to the surface. About 2 mm long Ostracod	Creseis_virgula Pteropod Pteropod mollusc	Crucibranchaea_macrochira_1d Mollusc Pteropod mollusc

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