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Science 11 February 1972:
Vol. 175. no. 4022, pp. 636 - 637
DOI: 10.1126/science.175.4022.636
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Giant Amphipod from the Abyssal Pacific Ocean

Robert R. Hessler 1, John D. Isaacs 1, and Eric L. Mills 2

1 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California 92037
2 Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

A baited camera has recorded a lysianassid amphipod that is twice as large as the largest amphipod previously recorded. The locality for this mobile omnivore is the sterile bottom of the eastern North Pacific Ocean, at a depth of 5304 meters.


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