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Crangon septemspinosa (sevenspine bay shrimp zoea)

Collected: April, 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: This larva has a dorsal spine on the abdomen and thus superficially resembles the ghost shrimps, but note the long rostrum on Crangon. The telsons are also distinctive

Click here to see a very early stage zoea.

Collected by: W. S. Johnson, Goucher College

Submitted by: W. S. Johnson
Goucher College


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