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Identification by Mark Webber

Collected from general plankton tow using a 60 µm mesh net by Andrew Simon, David Leehr and Emily Greenan; fixed plankton were pipetted onto glass coverslips and cleaned of organics (some more than others) with warm concentrated nitric acid and then rinsed of salts. Mounted on SEM (scanning electron microscope) stubs and gold sputter coated. Sample and stub Preparation by Mark Webber, IMERSS. Images taken on a Hitachi TM4000 SEM by Mark Webber

Many thanks to Elaine Humphrey, manager of the Advanced Microscope Facility (AMF) at UVIC and a Board member of IMERSS, for collaboration and imaging support. Our gratitude to Hitachi Hi-Tech in Canada for loaning the TM4000 to Elaine Humphrey AMF for educational and research purposes.

Photo license and credit belong to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH), the Hakai Institute, and MarineGEO | http://specifyportal.flmnh.ufl.edu/iz/ | Field Number: BHAK-1663 | This observation is a part of the collaborative work between FLMNH, the Smithsonian Institution's Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO) and Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and the Hakai Institute