Collected at night 50-80 kilometers off of Barnegat, NJ.n

Notes: This is one of the most common offshore ostracods. The presence of a "beak" at the anterior end usggests it may be a species of Conchoecia or Euconchoecia.

This species is holoplanktonic and uses the appendages visible at the left for swimming

Collected and photographed by: W. S. Johnson
Goucher College