This organism is a typical undescribed harpacticoid copepod. Though this particular specimen was collected at a hydrothermal vent site, the same family may actually be found at seeps as well. This specimen, all of 0.4 millimeters in length, was sieved from the sediment surrounding a mussel collection. Image Courtesy of Julia Zekely, University of Vienna.
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