CMarZ gallery animals

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

 

Limacina_leseuri_1i.jpg
Limacina_leseuri
Modified foot act as wings for swimming
Pteropod mollusc
Lucicutia_aurita_2a_M10-2-n0.jpg
Lucicutia aurita
a bathypelagic (deep dwelling, >1000m)
Copepod
Lucifer_typica_1b.jpg
Lucifer_typica
Decapod
(R. Hopcroft)
Macrocypridina_castanea 1b.jpg
Macrocypridina_castanea
This 6 mm long chocolate colored ostracod has transparent windows over its compund eyes
Ostracod
(R. Hopcroft)
Macrocypridina_castanea 2b.jpg
Macrocypridina_castanea
This is a deep mesopelagic species, 600-800 m
Ostracod
(R. Hopcroft)
Nausithoe_sp_1d_lateral.jpg
The spheres above are eggs.
(R. Hopcroft)

Nausithoe_sp.
Jellyfish
Oikopleura_cophocerca_1c.jpg
Oikopleura_cophocerca
Larvacean
(R. Hopcroft)
Pegantha_24a_aboral.jpg
Pegantha (aboral view)
Jellyfish
(R. Hopcroft)
Phronima_atlantica_1.jpg
Phronima, Pram Bug
Top view of mother with many young inside her barrel home, a hollowed out salp test.  A side view of this animal, outside the barrel, is at right.
Amphipod
Phronima_sp.jpg
Phronima_sp.
Deep-dwelling hyperiids, supposedly the inspiration of the movie 'Alien'
Amphipod
(R. Hopcroft)
Phylliroe_atlantica_1.jpg
Phylliroe_atlantica
a nudibranch
Mollusc
Pontellina_plumata_1b.jpg
Pontellina_plumata
Copepod
(R. Hopcroft)

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