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Skeletonema Margelopsis gibbesii (male)

Collected: About 500m offshore of Assateague Island, VA in early June, 2006, just above the bottom using an epibenthic sled with a 363 um mesh.ollecte 153 um

Notes: Margelopsis males lack the buds seen in the females. Males are more rare in our collections off of Assateague

 

Collected and photographed by: Bill Johnson, Goucher College. Identified by Dale Calder, Senior Curator (Invertebrate Zoology) in the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology at the Royal Ontario Museum.

 

 



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