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(anchovy egg)

Collected: Spring, 2005 5 km off of Assateague, VA sampling just above the bottom using an epibenthic sled (363 micrometer mesh) in 8-9 m depths.


Notes: The oblong shape suggests that this may be the egg of Anchoa hepsetus, the striped anchovy .

Collected by: W. S. Johnson, Goucher College

Submitted by: W. S. Johnson
Goucher College


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