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Gigantocypris muelleri Skogsberg 1920 - a myodocopid

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Description:

Female (13-15mm)showing the large reflectors of the naupliar eyes. This species is cammon at depths of 800-1500m in the North Atlantic. It ia assumed that this species is the same as Skogsberg's species from the Southern Ocean.

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