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Show Find Crustaceans Discovery of five species of small crustaceans hitherto unknown to science, sci-ence, almost microscopic in size, Inhabiting In-habiting Chesapeake bay, Is announced an-nounced by Dr. Charles B. Wilson In a Smithsonian Institution report. They are copepod crustaceans, distant dis-tant relatives of the crab and the crab and the lobster, and constitute the chief supply of many fish eaten by man. These discoveries resulted from a biological survey of the bay conducted under the direction of the bureau of fisheries. Vast multitudes of the small creatures were found to swarm the bay waters. |