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Benthic amphipod, taken with Leica DFC 490 camera mounted on a Leica M205C binocular microscope. This is an invasive species in Europe, originally originating from America. The species can be distinguished from other local Melitidae species by the absence of dorsal teeth on pleosomites and urosomites, an accesory flagellum with at least two segments and a group of dorso lateral spines on either side of urosome 2. Collected in 2011 near the Bend of Bath on the Western Scheldt. Length = ~4 mm Focus stack of 34 pictures. Date: 13 April 2012
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Photo by Hans Hillewaert. Taken with Axiocam (Zeiss) camera mounted on a Zeiss Stemi C-2000 binocular microscope. The caprellid was sampled on the Belgian Continental Shelf in 1999.
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Ampelisca brevicornis. Photo by Hans Hillewaert. Taken with Axiocam (Zeiss) camera mounted on a Zeiss Stemi C-2000 binocular microscope. The cumacean was sampled on the Belgian Continental Shelf in 1997.
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Atylus swammerdami. Photo by Hans Hillewaert. Taken with Axiocam (Zeiss) camera mounted on a Zeiss Stemi C-2000 binocular microscope. The amphipod was sampled on the Belgian Continental Shelf in 1999.
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Collected in 2010 on the S2 dredge disposal site off Zeebrugge in the Belgian part of the North Sea 2010.
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Leucothoe incisa. Photo by Hans Hillewaert. Taken with Axiocam (Zeiss) camera mounted on a Zeiss Stemi C-2000 binocular microscope. The amphipod was sampled on the Belgian Continental Shelf in 1997.
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Lepidepecreum longicornis. Photo by Hans Hillewaert. Taken with Axiocam (Zeiss) camera mounted on a Zeiss Stemi C-2000 binocular microscope. The amphipod was sampled on the Dutch Continental Shelf (N51°50.83 E002°52.00) in 2004.
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Collected in 2011 at the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium at 51°21'3.15"N 3°13'10.63"E. Focus stack of 27 pictures.
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Pontocrates altamarinus. Photo by Hans Hillewaert. Taken with Axiocam (Zeiss) camera mounted on a Zeiss Stemi C-2000 binocular microscope. The amphipod was sampled on the Belgian Continental Shelf in 1999.
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Bathyporeia guilliamsoniana. Photo by Hans Hillewaert. Taken with Axiocam (Zeiss) camera mounted on a Zeiss Stemi C-2000 binocular microscope. The amphipod was sampled on the Belgian Continental Shelf in 1999.
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Urothoe brevicornis. Photo by Hans Hillewaert. Taken with Axiocam (Zeiss) camera mounted on a Zeiss Stemi C-2000 binocular microscope. The cumacean was sampled on the Belgian Continental Shelf in 1997.
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Urothoe poseidonis. Photo by Hans Hillewaert. Taken with Axiocam (Zeiss) camera mounted on a Zeiss Stemi C-2000 binocular microscope. The cumacean was sampled on the Belgian Continental Shelf in 1997.
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Collected on 2012-03-13 at 51°25'42.78"N 3°7'23.81"E in the Belgian part of the North Sea.
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A parasitical barnacle on a female Liocarcinus holsatus, from the Belgian coastal waters (Westdiep). 28 September 2005
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A parasitical copepod from underneath the pectoral fin of a Flounder (Platichthys flesus (L.)), from the Belgian part of the North Sea (Hinder Banks). Length approx. 7 mm. 17 March 2010
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Marine isopod from the Belgian Continental Shelf 2003. Camera mounted on a Zeiss Stemi C-2000 binocular microscope. Length: ~3?mm. Note the typically pointed pleonites.
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Tanaissus lilljeborgi. Photo by Hans Hillewaert. Taken with Axiocam (Zeiss) camera mounted on a Zeiss Stemi C-2000 binocular microscope. The tanaid was sampled on the Belgian Continental Shelf in 2000.
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Zoea larva of Homarus gammarus. Photo by Hans Hillewaert (2005).