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Pteropod or Sea Angel (Clione limacina) white background with buccal cones extended.

Pteropod or Sea Angel (Clione limacina) white background with buccal cones extended.
Pteropod or Sea Angel (Clione limacina) white background with buccal cones extended.
Pteropod or Sea Angel (Clione limacina) white background with buccal cones extended.
Pteropod or Sea Angel (Clione limacina) white background with buccal cones extended.
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Caiger, Paul
Pteropod or Sea Angel (Clione limacina) white background with buccal cones extended.
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08/13/2018
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 56, No. 1, Pg. 46:
A free-swimming sea snail known as a sea angel (shown here) flaps its winglike arms gracefully while in search of food, while another species (Diacria trispinosa, not shown) propels itself through the Ocean Twilight Zone with its tiny feet.
Photo by Paul Caiger
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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