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Name: Northern Krill
Scientific name: Meganyctiphanes norvegica
Details:
Status: alive in tank in laboratory of Antarctic Group @ Institut fuer Meereskunde Kiel
Dynamic:
Special: Feed predominantly on copepods, therefore the gut is red colored, in contrast to southern krill, Euphausia superba, feeding predominantly on phytoplankton, E. superba's gut is yellow, brown or green
Chance to misstake with:
Euphausia superba,
but only about half the size, gut red to yellow, filtering basket less developed,
much less cetae on thoracopods and wider spaced, thoracopods and pleopods
relatively shorter
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species
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two species
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