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Acartia tonsa (copepod)

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


Notes: Acartia tonsa is usually the most abundant copepod in warm coastal and estuarine waters.

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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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