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Collected using a subaquatic light trap. This species is highly photopositive.

Notes for ID:

• mucro present, without teeth (image 6)
• sensory bristle midway between eye and tip of rostrum (image 3)
• postabdominal claw with heavy pecten basally and fine pecten more distally (images 4, 5)
• curviture of antennules matches the pellucida morph (images 1, 2, 3)

See http://cfb.unh.edu/cfbkey/html/Organisms/CCladocera/FBosminidae/GBosmina/Bosmina_longirostris/bosminalongirostris.html#pellucida