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Branchionus (rotifer)

Location: Chesapeake Bay, MD (Middle River)
Date: Summer 2004

Notes: Rotifers are especially abundant in low salinity subestuaries of the Chesapeake Bay in spring. They are among the smallest of the multicellular zooplankton.

Collected and photographed by: Marilyn Yorgey, Goucher College, Towson, MD.

Submitted by: W. S. Johnson
Goucher College


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