Caption: Specimens of this new species of water flea, "Dumontia oregonensis," sat on a shelf in the laboratory of Stanley Dodson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of zoology, for five years before they were dissected and identified as a new species representing a family of unknown water fleas. Dodson and former graduate student Carlos J. Santos-Flores, described the new animal in the scientific journal Hydrobiologia.
Photo by: courtesy Kandis Elliot/Botany
Date: February 2004
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