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Description
The diversity of tiny zooplankton is shown in this microphotograph of preservedspecimens. The preserving fluid coagulates the protein and makes the animalslook white. In nature the animals are nearly transparent. Some zooplanktonlive by preying on their fellow members, but most are herbivorous, living onphytoplankton - the vegetation of the sea.
Credit
NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; P. 24 of Our Changing Fisheries 1970 Centenary NMFS centenary volume
Display Date
1969 circa
Collection
Historic Fisheries