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 Siphonophore	Atlanta_peroni A swimming mollusc Heteropod	Atlanta_peroni Heteropod	Baby_anenome the tentacles will point up when it settles on the sea floor Anemone
Baby_octopus Two big eyes give away this guy's predacious habit Mollusc	Baby_squid Mollusc	Brachyscelus-crusculum Amphipod	Chelophyes_appendiculata Siphonophore
Conchaecilla_daphnoides Bioluminesces at tip of rostrum and tail, probably to appear larger as a defense against predators Ostracod	Conchoecissa_imbricata 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 Mollusc Pteropod mollusc

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