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Acartia tonsa (urosome)

Location: Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, 5/28/03


Notes: The details of the ursosme, especially the spination on the caudal rami are useful to distinguish A. tonsa from A hudsonica.


Collected by Barbara Sullivan, University of Rhode Island

Photographed by: Ashley Cooper, Goucher College
Submitted by: W. S. Johnson
Goucher College, Towson, MD .


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