Location: 100 km offshore from Barnegat, NJ. Depths of >200 meters. Caught while drifting a plankton net (363 micrometer mesh) from the back of a boat at night. Summer 2009. Abundant in this collection.

Notes: This striking black and white copepod is a predator.

Click here for a photo of the ventral view.

Collected and photographed by: William S. Johnson, Goucher College

Collected by : Bill Johnson, Goucher College