Marine plankton (IMAGE)

University of Oldenburg

Marine plankton

Caption

Typical zooplankton found in the North Sea include copepods (top right), bristle worms (polychaetes, bottom right) and hydrome-dusae (left), a class of cnidaria. Many of the tiny organisms floating in the water are barely a millimetre long.

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Silke Laakmann, HIFMB

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