Creature of the Month
December , 2007
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New and unusual zooplankton.
The emphasis is on species and/or life stages not typically encountered in nearshore plankton. This will include some visitors from offshore waters, some species more typical of fresh waters, rare species, and less common life stages of common species.
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Pleased to meet you...
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Location: 100 km offshore from Barnegat, NJ. Depths of >200 meters.
Depth:
~200m
Date:Summer 2009.
Gear: Caught while drifting a plankton net (363 micrometer mesh) from the back of a boat at night.
.Collected by Collected by: Bill Johnson, Goucher College.
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