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Gaussia princeps
Black Prince Copepod

Photographer: Lovell and Libby Langstroth
Organization: California Academy of Sciences
Collection: CalAcademy

ID: 0000 0000 0305 0851 (2005-03-25)

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date of photo Dec 15, 1997

this photo depicts an animal that was captive or collected

photo location Photo In the laboratory

animal's place of origin Outer Monterey Bay (Monterey County, California, US)

class Malacostraca

habitat Open water

notes Female copepod lying on her back, about 10 mm long, from Monterey Bay Aquarium. These copepods normally inhabit the oxygen minimum zone at depths down to 1100m, but at night they migrate up to shallow water for oxygen and to catch plankton. The two dark bodies are stored sperm from copulation with two different males. She is ten times the size of most copepods, 'abyssal gigantism.'

camera Olympus system for macro photography

photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

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common names Black Prince Copepod (photographer)

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